EMPOWERING YOUTH & WOMEN
The potential for youth, women, and girls to be the drivers of Africa’s economy is huge but they, and particularly those from rural communities, are faced with numerous social barriers such as illiteracy, teenage pregnancy, early marriages, high school attrition, high dependency ratio, and socio-cultural prjudices. Significant gender imbalances exist at the individual, household, and community levels. Participation of women in decision-making processes including planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluation is low. Young people are frequently ‘othered’ in discussions about conflict whereas they can play a very positive role aiding peacebuilding in societies recovering from conflict. Women and youth are often used as weapons and instruments of war but are seldom involved in making key decisions either due to their lack of economic strength or simply the patriarchal nature of society. Youth that are not gainfully engaged provide cheap energy to fuel armed conflicts while women have often suffered the brunt of violence directly meted against them. ANCHOR contributes to the empowerment of women and youth through:
Economic initiatives to reduce the proneness of women and youth from the effects of armed conflict, radicalization, and unsafe migration.
The Technical Assistance for Conflict Transformation and Avoidance through Innovation and Commerce (TACTIC) aims to alleviate women unemployment and the youth ‘waithood’ phenomena through the establishment and management of a sustainable Innovation Support Center for...
Promoting equality and non-discrimination against women by strengthening grass roots and community structures, and creating platforms for voices of reason.
The equality and non-discrimination project seeks to: increase awareness on human rights, gender equality and non-discrimination against women; improve the capacity of the local structures to monitor, support, document and report cases of human rights violations and...
Equipping Youth, Women, and Girls with Practical Marketable Vocational Skills to boost their stable employability
Refugee and Host Community Youth in Rhinocamp Refugee Settlement have been equipped with vocational and business skills under ANCHOR's RESCOPE Project 2018-19. The potential for youth, women, and girls to be the drivers of Uganda’s economy is huge but they, and...