PARTNER:

Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE)

DURATION:

April-December 2021 (9 Months)

BRIEF DESCRIPTION:

EACSOF Kenya will support the development of regional CSOs scorecards of Articles 5 (Elimination of harmful practices), 6 (marriage) and 12 (Education) of the Maputo Protocol in a bid to lobby state reporting and implementation in EAC, to support the development of the EAC Gender Policy Action Plan incorporating issues of child marriages and teenage pregnancies, supporting the validation and assenting of the EAC Gender Equality, Equity and Development Bill in March 201 and Supporting the EAC GBV working group to jointly develop key Regional and National advocacy activities on Teenage pregnancies and child marriage. This will be done in collaboration with FAWE and the EAC Gender Department.

OBJECTIVES:

• To strengthen institutional capacities of Duty bearers and decision makers to develop, resource and implement laws and policies that respond to the needs of adolescents
• To enhance the access to quality SRHR information, safe education and services for Adolescents at the risk of child marriages and teenage pregnancies

OUTCOMES

• Strengthened institutional capacities of Duty bearers and decision makers in developing, resourcing and implementing laws and policies that respond to the needs of adolescents
• Enhanced access to quality SRHR information, safe education and services for Adolescents at the risk of child marriages and teenage pregnancies