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AWA-AFRICA’s model wasn’t designed from a distance, it was built by women and youth who lived the crisis they now respond to.

AWA-AFRICA’s model wasn’t designed from a distance, it was built by women and youth who lived the crisis they now respond to.

AWA-AFRICA’s model wasn’t designed from a distance, it was built by women and youth who lived the crisis they now respond to.

Protection, education, livelihoods, and peacebuilding don’t have to arrive as four separate programmes from four separate organisations. We deliver them as one continuum, in the same hard-to-reach communities where international actors often cannot sustain a lasting presence.

Protection, education, livelihoods, and peacebuilding don’t have to arrive as four separate programmes from four separate organisations. We deliver them as one continuum, in the same hard-to-reach communities where international actors often cannot sustain a lasting presence.

Protection, education, livelihoods, and peacebuilding don’t have to arrive as four separate programmes from four separate organisations. We deliver them as one continuum, in the same hard-to-reach communities where international actors often cannot sustain a lasting presence.

Protect

Once women and girls are safe, they can return to learning.

Preventing and responding to gender-based violence, and safeguarding children and survivors through case management and safe spaces.

Safety comes first, because nothing else can start without it. We provide safe spaces, counselling and trauma healing, legal referrals and mobile health care, and we work with communities to end harmful practices such as early and forced marriage. Men and boys join us as allies for respect and equality.

800+ women and girls supported after gender-based violence

Learn

Skills and schooling open the way to earning.

Getting and keeping children, especially girls, in school through Accelerated Learning Programs and rehabilitated schools.

Conflict should not end a child’s education. We open access to quality learning in emergencies and after conflict: accelerated classes for children and teenagers who missed school, repaired and rebuilt classrooms, trained teachers, and textbooks and uniforms, so education continues even during conflict.

Earn

Women with their own income help their communities stay strong.

Building pathways to income and economic independence for women through Village Savings and Loan Associations, vocational training, and seed capital.

We equip women and youth with vocational and life skills, help them form savings groups, and connect them to small grants and business advice. Women who earn their own income support their children, depend less on aid, and build their way to economic recovery.

500+ women trained in skills to earn their own income

Unite

Peace protects everything families have rebuilt.

Restoring peace and social cohesion, and building climate resilience, through community-led dialogue and preparedness.

We build a culture of peace, healing and reconciliation through dialogues with youth, women, elders and traditional leaders, and reconciliation workshops after conflict. Communities also prepare for floods and drought through early warning, climate-friendly farming and tree-planting.

Protect

Once women and girls are safe, they can return to learning.

Preventing and responding to gender-based violence, and safeguarding children and survivors through case management and safe spaces. Safety comes first, because nothing else can start without it. We provide safe spaces, counselling and trauma healing, legal referrals and mobile health care, and we work with communities to end harmful practices such as early and forced marriage. Men and boys join us as allies for respect and equality.

800+ women and girls supported after gender-based violence

Learn

Skills and schooling open the way to earning.

Getting and keeping children, especially girls, in school through Accelerated Learning Programs and rehabilitated schools. Conflict should not end a child’s education. We open access to quality learning in emergencies and after conflict: accelerated classes for children and teenagers who missed school, repaired and rebuilt classrooms, trained teachers, and textbooks and uniforms, so education continues even during conflict.

Earn

Women with their own income help their communities stay strong.

Building pathways to income and economic independence for women through Village Savings and Loan Associations, vocational training, and seed capital. We equip women and youth with vocational and life skills, help them form savings groups, and connect them to small grants and business advice. Women who earn their own income support their children, depend less on aid, and build their way to economic recovery.

500+ women trained in skills to earn their own income

Unite

Peace protects everything families have rebuilt.

Restoring peace and social cohesion, and building climate resilience, through community-led dialogue and preparedness. We build a culture of peace, healing and reconciliation through dialogues with youth, women, elders and traditional leaders, and reconciliation workshops after conflict. Communities also prepare for floods and drought through early warning, climate-friendly farming and tree-planting.