The “Girl Power Programme Liberia” is aimed at providing equal opportunities for girls and young women. It is being implemented by ANPPCAN through its partners, the International Child Development Initiative (ICDI) with funding from the Dutch Foreign Ministry.
Major activities of the project carried out recently include capacity building trainings, holding of community dialogue forums and sensitization.
Copybooks, posters, stickers and t-shirts, promoting the protection and socio-participation of girls and young women were distributed in Bo-waterside, Tienii, Latia and Robertsport.
So far, a total of 340 girls and young women, men, boys, community, traditional and religious leaders have benefited from two weeks training that basically focused on violence against girls and young women and how they can prevent or report cases of violence, using referral mechanism.
It also provided opportunity for girls and young women to improve their leadership and participation skills.
The community dialogue highlighted the issues of violence taking place against girls and young women in their respective communities. Paramount among them is the issue of teenage pregnancy that is affecting school going girls and young women that is contributing to high rate of female school dropouts in the county.
The participants recommended continued sensitization on the rights of girls and young women, sexual reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and punitive measures be put in place against perpetrators as a means of addressing the menace.
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