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Purnima has some of the key interventions undertaken under the Youth & Women Empowerment programs include:

  • Sensitizing women on their rights particularly on the issues of inheritance and properly rights.
  • Promoting Sexual health of young people and girls including intensifying reproductive health rights awareness, sexuality education and addressing child and early marriage.
  • Creating awareness to the community on Gender Based Violence (GBV) including sexual violence and female genital mutilation and strengthening community structures for girls and women protection.
  • Making referrals for advanced Health care and legal redress to women who have experienced one form of GVC or the other.
  • Providing psychosocial support services including counseling to women who are victims of one form of GBV or the other.
  • Linking girls with safe houses to protect them from FGM.
  • Supporting Women Social Economic Empowerment initiatives.
  • Supporting initiatives to promote women and other marginalized populations’ involvement in governance and political leadership.
  • Addressing gender issues including Gender in education.
  • Supporting and participating in women rights Networks.
  • Awareness creation and advocacy for reproductive health rights.
  • Provision of sanitary commodities and supporting trainings for girls to make the same for sustainability.
  • Ability to identify early warning signs for violence.
  • Linking up marginalized groups for relevant support from appropriate organizations and institutions.
  • Ability to identify early warning signs for violence.
  • Facilitating Capacity and economic development of youth groups on:
  • Devolution, Social accountability and social audits
  • Entrepreneurship and wealth creation
  • Business planning and Management
  • Agriculture, Agribusinesses& livelihoods
  • Advocacy and policy influencing
  • Resource mobilization