Leadership for Rural and Urban Young Women - United Nations Partnerships for SDGs platform

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Leadership for Rural and Urban Young Women

Description
SDGs & Targets
Deliverables & timeline
Resources mobilized

Description/achievement of initiative

The programme seeks to build the capacity and confidence of individual women, particularly rural and urban young women, to participate in decision-making processes and asume positions of leadership, building on existing successful programmes. The programme also invests in the capacity of women's organisations to work together and link to the broader women's movement.

Implementation methodologies

IWDA is free to use the implementation methodologies it deems fit.

Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer

The programme seeks to build capacity of individual women and women's organisations.

Coordination mechanisms/governance structure

Through IWDA.

Partner(s)

International Women's Development Agency (IWDA) Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Progress reports

Goal 5

2015

Young women are mobilised, skilled and coordinated to publicly address issues affecting their lives

2015

There will be increased opportunities for women's meaningful participation in decision-making in local or provincial government settings

2015

Women's civil society in Fiji, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea will have successfully advocated for increased coherence between national and regional commitments to gender equality, i.e. CEDAW & UNSCR1325

2015

There will be increased voter willingness and ability to support women candidates in local or provincial and national level elections in Fiji, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea

Financing (in USD)

4,000,000 USD