Your Name and Title:
Noel Schroeder, Deputy Director, Advocacy and Capacity Building
School or Organization Name:
Women Thrive Worldwide
Co-Presenter Name(s):
Hendrina Doroba, Executive Director, Forum for African Women Educationalists
Area of the World from Which You Will Present:
United States, Kenya
Language in Which You Will Present:
English
Target Audience(s):
Education advocates (educators, students, development practitioners, administrators, and policymakers)
Short Session Description (one line):
The Power of Women’s and Girls’ Voices for Education Policy Change: Part I: Lessons from Collective Global Advocacy
Full Session Description (as long as you would like):
This session will present strategies and lessons from collective advocacy for equitable education that is rooted in the voices of women and girls. Women’s Thrive and the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE, tentative) will share lessons learned from their collective advocacy towards the United Nations for a strong sustainable development goal on equitable learning.
They will present challenges in the collective advocacy landscape including: the North-South flow of information, processes for raising a collective voice, diverse and disabling national political environments, and the rarity of South-South exchanges.
They will also share successful strategies for overcoming these challenges, including engaging decision-makers, building a strong advocacy movement focused on elevating the role of women and girls in decision-making processes, and building effective, sustainable networks and coalitions.
Session participants will be introduced to Raise Your Voice, Women Thrive’s multi-phase advocacy capacity strengthening and engagement program. The program combines best practices in gender mainstreaming and inclusive and participatory advocacy campaign development. It equips women, men and young people with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to create effective advocacy messages and campaigns that raise their collective voices to decision-makers.
FAWE will share how training young women and men on this new model has improved the capacity of its Alumni to advocate for gender equality, strengthened their network of advocates, allowed for greater effectiveness through South-South sharing, and improved their advocacy at the global level.
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