Supporting BRAC’s Youth Empowerment Technical Advisory Services
BRAC USA
Background BRAC is a global leader developing and implementing cost-effective, evidence-based programs to empower the most marginalized in extremely poor, conflict-affected, and post-conflict states. Founded in Bangladesh in 1972, BRAC now works across 11 countries in Asia and Africa. BRAC takes a holistic approach to alleviate poverty, running programs in education, healthcare, microfinance, women and girls’ empowerment, agriculture and food security, and human and legal rights. Since its inception, BRAC has understood that including women and girls at the forefront of its development initiatives are critical in achieving our mission and vision. We are determined to root out the systemic causes of poverty, particularly through the empowerment of marginalized women and girls. Centering AGYW in our youth work is done through curriculum development designed with youth and community input, through designated peer groups and mentorship approaches, and by targeting the enabling environment for AGYW, including trainings and advocacy with men, boys, and custodians of power systems, who tend to be male in BRAC’s target areas. BRAC’s signature youth programme in sub-Saharan Africa is its Empowerment and Livelihoods for Adolescents (ELA) model. The ELA model is a three-pillared approach concentrating on education,...
Botswana : Southern
2021-03-08
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