Chapter 5: Advocacy For and With Girls

A gender perspective and a human rights framework are key to successful advocacy efforts for and with girls because both provide tools for analyzing the root causes of the problems and inequities that girls experience. Click here to read more.

Chapter 4: An Introduction to Advocacy

This chapter introduces participants to the essential elements that contribute to a successful advocacy strategy, as well as the planning methods that are involved in each step. Click here to read more.

Chapter 3: Teambuilding

Teambuilding is an important way to create trust, ensure confidentiality, and create a positive learning space for participants. Teambuilding opens up the workshop space to learning beyond the technical aspects of advocacy planning and encourages participants to develop trust and collaborative relationships throughout the workshop. Click here to read more.

Chapter 2: Adapting, Facilitating, Providing Feedback

The facilitator manages the group’s learning based on participants’ knowledge via small group and plenary discussions, as well as experiential learning activities and personal reflections. Click here to read more.

Chapter 1: Curriculum Index, Methodology, Workshop Guide

This workshop guide is based on experiential learning, connecting participants more deeply to one another and deepening their knowledge of new concepts presented during the workshop. It provides opportunities for participants to collaboratively incorporate new information in a safe setting where they can try out new skills and knowledge and integrate constructive feedback from peers and colleagues. Click here to … Read More

Acknowledgments and Thanks

We are very grateful to the many leaders around the world who contributed to creating this girl-centered advocacy curriculum, including our funding partners: the United Nations Foundation, the NoVo Foundation, the Summit Foundation, and the WestWind Foundation. Click here to view the full acknowledgments and thanks.