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Advocating for Adolescent Girls in Latin America and Africa

Advocating for Adolescent Girls in Latin America and Africa. AGALI. Goal Improve adolescent girls’ health, human rights, education, and socio-economic wellbeing Strategies Capacity building workshop Dissemination and outreach Seed grants and technical assistance Participants

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Advocating for Adolescent Girls in Latin America and Africa

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  1. Advocating for Adolescent Girls in Latin America and Africa

  2. AGALI Goal • Improve adolescent girls’ health, human rights, education, and socio-economic wellbeing Strategies • Capacity building workshop • Dissemination and outreach • Seed grants and technical assistance Participants • Civil society leaders • Policymakers • Advocates

  3. AGALI • International Health Programs (IHP) of the Public Health Institute (PHI) • UN Foundation (UNF): $750,000/3 years • Focus countries for 2009/10 • Africa: Liberia, Malawi, Ethiopia • Latin America: Guatemala (plus Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, & Mexico)

  4. Improve adolescent girls’ health, education, and socio-economic wellbeing Enhance leadership and strengthen institutional capacity Support implementation of effective advocacy strategies Training Dissemination Technical Assistance Seed Grants The AGALI Model

  5. 1. Leadership Training • Build leadership capacityto advocate on behalf of adolescent girls • Share knowledge & best practices • Develop advocacy strategies to advance girls’ education, health, human rights, socio-economic wellbeing

  6. 2. Dissemination Participants build local capacity and commitment by conducting trainings for local organizations and with girls’ groups.

  7. 3. Seed Grant Funding IHP/PHI awards $10,000 grants to support the strongest advocacy projects.

  8. 4. Technical Assistance • IHP/PHI provides TA to AGALI participants: • Proposal development • Project implementation • Networking and outreach • Institutional strengthening

  9. 2010 Plans • June 8-14, 2010: AGALI capacity building workshop in Alexandria, Egypt • August, 2010: Competitive RFP for advocacy project proposals • Fall, 2010: Follow-up institutional strengthening workshop and project monitoring

  10. Thank you!Questions? www.agaliprogram.org eteitsworth@phi.org

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