THE RIGHT TO BE A GIRL targeting adolescent girls living in Eastlands informal settlements/slums of Nairobi city, Kenya with an overall aim of contributing in the effort to ending gender based violence amongst girls aged 10-19 years through girl-led advocacy interventions that call on community members to respect the rights of girls and support them to manage acquire skills and knowledge to engage in advocacy, community dialogues, and policy on prevention of sexual gender based violence (SGBV).
Kodera Women Group was established in the year 2011, where some women and girls pioneers drew up a groundbreaking plan to empower disadvantaged women and girls living in and around Dandora dumpsite, a sprawling dumpsite, over 30 acres, in the heart of the Nairobi slums of Korogocho, Baba Ndogo, Mathare and Dandora with a mission to giving slum women and girls voices and participation in development with regards to clean environment, health rights/ sexual violence & livelihoods improvement.
"THE RIGHT TO BE A GIRL" will keep girls engaged through a series of mentoring and peer-networking, and a space to create and support meaningful engagement in the gender based violence response, through providing girls and young women with support to engage in sub-national and national policy forums; Support to conduct and participate in community dialogues; Advocating for and supporting the participation of girls and young women in workshops, side events, and panels at national conferences.
The activities will include organizing/mobilizing, advocacy and leadership training, mentorship and networking, advocacy work and participation in community dialogues, policy forums and conferences on gender based violence. This project aims to bring girl leaders together to form a strong voice. The plan is to make social support, information resources, empowerment and support services and activism accessible to girls to enable their participation in leadership and advocacy to end SGBV.
