by dswen | Feb 5, 2024 | Female Empowerment, Kenya, Youth, Youth Empowerment
Miriam Chebet lives in West Pokot County, Kenya. Trained by Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung (DSW), Miriam now works with young people in her community, empowering them to stand up for their rights. One of the issues she focuses on is female genital mutilation (FGM)....
by Nduta Waweru | Jan 22, 2024 | Kenya, Youth, Youth Empowerment
Three solutions emerged the winners of DSW Kenya’s 2023 Call for Innovative Youth-led Solutions from over 50 submissions from across the country. GiPAD by Madvocate CBO from Kilifi emerged as the winner under the sexual and reproductive health (SRHR) category. Their...
by Shane O'Halloran | Jan 8, 2024 | Empower, Enhance, Entrepreneurship, Female Empowerment, Uganda, Youth Empowerment
Empowering Women Entrepreneurs: The POWER to Transform Family Planning in Uganda Meet Winnie Nabukeera, Chief Executive Officer of Little Winnie Foundation, a new social enterprise in Uganda part of the POWER family (Providing Opportunities for Women in...
by Shane O'Halloran | Dec 8, 2023 | Advance, Empower, Enhance, Entrepreneurship, Female Empowerment, Uganda, Youth, Youth Empowerment
Empowering Women Entrepreneurs: The POWER to Transform Family Planning in Uganda Meet Angel Babirye, A.K.A Malaika, CEO for Us for Girls, a new social enterprise in Uganda that is part of the POWER family (Providing Opportunities for Women in Entrepreneurship and...
by Esayas Meskel | Nov 29, 2023 | Ethiopia, Youth Empowerment
Already ten months into its first year of implementation, the Youth for Health (Y4H) project hosted a half-day adolescent sexual and reproductive health advocacy workshop on 15 November 2023 at Sapphire Hotel in Addis Ababa. Ahead of a series of other sensitisation...
by Esayas Meskel | Nov 20, 2023 | Ethiopia, Youth, Youth Empowerment
The week-long high-level donor visits to DSW’s project have combined a number of activities beginning with an Annual Review Meeting (ARM) of stakeholders representing all UNFPA-supported projects in Dilla and Bule-Hora, located 294 km and 481 km south of the capital...
