This project in Uganda aims to transform social norms and practices, reduce risks of early marriage, pregnancy, Gender Based Violence (GBV), and HIV infection, and support girls to stay in school.
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Progress Report: Fiscal Year 2018 (October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018)
The Women’s Empowerment Fund aims to build the resilience of women and their families, improve gender equality, and support the development of livelihoods by increasing access to and quality of financial services to vulnerable women.
So far, $1.55 million has been raised with 5,062 women currently receiving loans through this fund that impact 13,037 children.
Progress Report: Fiscal Year 2018 (October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018)
Today, more than 6 million women and girls around the world are living safer, healthier, and more productive lives, and we’re just getting started.
Thanks to you, the lives of millions of women and girls are being transformed, as well as those of their families and communities.
Progress Report: Fiscal Year 2018 (October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018)
The Strong Women, Strong World Fund supported the Women's Empowerment Fund and the Burundi Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Project. $1.55 million was raised for the Women's Empowerment Fund with 5,062 women currently receiving loans that impact 13,037 children. 51,102 people in Burundi were provided with access to clean water, 60,852 people benefited from improved sanitation and 93,269 people were taught better hygiene practices.
Thank you for your commitment to empowering millions of women and girls. You are helping to ensure they have opportunities to reach their potential and build healthier families and communities. Your support of a full range of interventions—from water, food, health, and education to economic development and child protection—allows communities to work toward solutions, improved lives, and renewed hope.
More than 60 percent of people living in extreme poverty are women and girls. World Vision is responding in many of the communities where women and girls struggle the most. Solving the puzzle of poverty requires a full plan and a full range of services—water, food, health, education, economic opportunities, and child protection— in partnership with faith leaders who promote gender equality. Through signature initiatives in these areas, with your partnership, much progress occurred between October 2016 and September 2017.
Channels of Hope (CoH) for Gender is an innovative approach to exploring gender identities, norms and values from a faith perspective. The program methodology challenges faith leaders to acknowledge and act upon gender injustices in their communities, as these are realities in many places where World Vision works.
When faith leaders promote principles of equality, and the shared access and utilization of family and community resources, this contributes to harmonious relationships within families, faith groups and communities.
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Faith and religion are integral aspects of culture, with implications for those advocating for gender equality, yet in development practice they are frequently not examined overtly.
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In June 2012, World Vision International commissioned an 18-month gender equality study to examine our influence on and contribution to gender equality for boys, girls, women, and men. The research took place in four countries (Kenya, Tanzania, Bolivia, India) and discovered a number of significant positive findings.
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Gender-Based Violence: Survivor Support (GBVSS) is our USAID- and DFID-funded project that aims to strengthen the prevention of and response to GBV in Zambia.
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