This initiative is dedicated to combating gender-based violence, focusing on harmful practices like FGM, early marriage, and teenage pregnancy. It raises awareness and promotes protective measures to safeguard the rights and well-being of girls and women.
Educating communities on the dangers of gender-based violence and harmful practices.
Supporting survivors of FGM, early marriage, and teenage pregnancy.
Advocating for stronger policies to prevent violence against girls and women.
The project breaks through educative and entertaining activities, as a natural way of communication, the silence on female genital mutilation (FGM). It gives space to open inter-generation and intergender dialogue, sets role models and ambassadors speaking out against the practice, and overcomes the fear of social exclusion when FGM not performed.
The project will promote the education of girls among themselves and their families. Half of girls in Oromia get married before they reach 17.4 years of age. Once they get married, a vast majority drops out of school to take care of the household.
BEST Girls – Being Empowered, Strong and Together project is a project implemented by 4 youth-led/youth focused grassroot organizations that has been working in partnership since the year 2017on various development projects. Using this existing synergy, the organizations came together and form a strong project implementing cluster called “Addooyyee” to implement BEST Girls project in Adama City Administration at Logo Sub-city, Bika kebele.
