2024-2027
Ending Gender-Based Violence By Empowering Youth
© Ujamaa Africa
2024-2027
Ujamaa Africa
Ujamaa Africa is a Kenyan non-profit organisation that teaches gender-based violence prevention, intervention and recovery in schools across Kenya, Malawi, Somalia, Tanzania and Zambia. Several studies have demonstrated dramatic decrease in the incident of sexual assaults where its rape prevention programme is delivered. In 2023 Ujamaa trained 410,000 students and now plans to scale its training model in Kenya through the public education system, empowering 6 million students every year by 2028. We’re funding them to train over 5,700 teachers and teach 1.1 million students in Malawi by the end of 2026.
CHALLENGE
In Malawi, 25% young women between the ages of 15 and 19 identify their first sexual encounter as forced, which is the highest rate in the sub-Saharan region and globally.
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ACTION
Ujamaa developed an evidence based and survivor designed programme for sexual violence prevention, intervention and recovery, which is called Empowerment Transformation Training (ETT). ETT is comprised of two flagship initiatives: the Girls Empowerment Self Defense programme that empowers girls to recognize and avoid predators and defend themselves if necessary and, for the boys, the Hero In Me programme, which helps boys to reshape harmful attitudes and behaviours around gender and sexuality. Both target students ages 10-18 years old who attend after-school club sessions in schools.
DECREASE IN ANNUAL INCIDENCE OF RAPE
for girls participants
DECREASE IN TEEN PREGNANCY
where the programme is delivered.
DECREASE IN SCHOOL DROPUT RATES
where the programme is delivered.
