Reporting Organization: | World Vision Canada |
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Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 13,700,000 |
Timeframe: | March 10, 2021 - December 31, 2025 |
Status: | Implementation |
Contact Information: | Unspecified |
Mozambique - $ 13,700,000.00 (100.00%) | |
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Gender Equality (100.00 %) | |
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Every Girl Can (EGC) is a five-year, gender-transformative (GE-3) project funded by Global Affairs Canada. It is implemented in close collaboration with the Government of Mozambique and local civil society and community partners and stakeholders, especially women and girls. The project is being implemented in three rural districts of Nampula province: Nacaroa, Monapo, and Murrupula.
EGC is committed to improving gender equality and realizing adolescent girls’ and young women’s (8-24 years old) right to live free of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and discrimination. The project challenges the discriminatory gender norms and practices that prevail within schools, families and communities by equipping girls with the knowledge and skills to claim their rights. It creates an environment that enables the realization of those rights through multiple entry points at provincial, district and community levels. The project empowers girls and young women to promote positive change in their families and communities, giving them the tools to make choices beyond early marriage and pregnancy.
Every Girl Can contributed to the COVID-19 pandemic response by raising awareness, supporting households in seeking health care and social protection services, and providing medical supplies and protective equipment and training to health facilities.
Gender and age: | Adolescent females Adolescent males Adult men Adult women Children, boys Children, girls |
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Total Direct Population: | 146,777 |
Total Indirect Population: | 63,465 |
291 | Training |
75 | Equipment of School SRH Corners |
1,624 | Training |
270 | Training |
9,193 | Training |
1,134 | Training |
The project has three key results:
1. Improved effectiveness of government protection institutions at the community level to deliver gender-responsive prevention, early intervention, protection and response services related to SGBV, COVID-19 and discrimination of girls and young women.
2. Enhanced agency and decision-making of girls and young women to protect themselves from SGBV and COVID-19, and to be active change agents in their communities.
3. Enhanced community support and systems that advance gender equality and girls and young women’s agency, rights and protection from SGBV, gender discrimination, and mitigate the secondary impacts of COVID-19.
The mid-term evaluation conducted early in 2024 assessed the performance and results of EGC between March 2021 and September 2023. Highlights of the results contributing to achieving the three project results are presented below:
Improved effectiveness of government protection institutions to deliver gender-responsive prevention, early intervention, protection and response services related to SGBV and discrimination of girls and young women
• In the last 12 months of the evaluation, the percentage of girls and young women seeking reproductive health care in project districts increased from 13.2 per cent at baseline to 55.3 per cent at midline.
• The Health Facility Survey conducted as part of the midterm evaluation report indicates there has been an increase in the percentage of health facilities considered gender-responsive from 48 per cent to 50 per cent. 100 per cent of schools surveyed reported taking action to reduce SGBV in the past 12 months. For example, schools have improved their capacity to provide gender-responsive, evidence-based information and protocol implementation related to the rights of women and girls’ SGBV, SRHR and COVID-19 for girls and boys.
Enhanced agency and decision-making of girls and young women to protect themselves from SGBV and to be active change agents in their communities
• The number of girls and young women who feel confident in their ability to report and seek help from duty bearers (teachers, health professionals, police and community leaders) with SGBV and child protection incidents increased from 5.6 per cent at baseline to 19.3 per cent at midline.
• There are 5.8 per cent more girls and young women who participate in advocacy groups as change agents in their communities.
• The percentage of girls and young women with knowledge to prevent, mitigate and respond to SGBV improved from 3.7 per cent at baseline to 9.3 per cent at midline. The girls are more knowledgeable about laws and policies protecting girls and young women from early marriage, as well as what constitutes gender-based violence.
Enhanced community support and systems that advance gender equality and girls and young women’s agency, rights and protection from SGBV, gender discrimination
• 1,440 boys have graduated from the boys’ clubs and were trained as advocates for gender equality and the prevention of SGBV and early marriage. Caregivers and key informants report positive behavioural shifts, including improved cooperation in household responsibilities and a greater receptiveness to parental guidance.
• Confidence in the justice system is growing among girls and young women. The number of girls who initiated a case in the court system tripled from eight at baseline to 27 by the midline evaluation.