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Save the Children International (SCI) is an organisation that champions the rights and interests of children worldwide, putting the most vulnerable children first. Guided by their Theory of and Gender Equality Policy, Save the Children is committed to the promotion and advancement of gender equality throughout all our programming, advocacy, partnerships, and organization. The plan being to work with all partners to identify and implement best-practice solutions for overcoming inequalities that affect the rights of girls and boys. SCI has reached out to Sonke Gender Justice as a partner to implement one of their programmes named, Sida Civil Society Strengthening 2022-2026.
The Sida Civil Society Strengthening program, 2022-2026, is aimed at supporting civil society partner organisations through regional and country programmes, with the overall goal of contributing to a strong civil society that demands and supports the fulfilment of children’s rights – holding states to account and mobilizing and empowering children and their communities.
The activities that Sonke will engage in with SC country offices within this program will include:
- Capacitating the SC staff on gender transformation at organizational level, to ensure that the operations, policies and structure is gender transformative.
- Capacitate the master trainers (training of trainers) on gender transformative programming. The expectation being that the master trainers will cascade the training to the facilitators on the ground who work directly with families. The main aim is to ensure that the programmes facilitated by SC promote gender equal parenting within families and gender equality across the board.
Therefore, the main aim is to develop a curriculum on GTA and positive parenting, focusing on the following themes:
- Childrens’ rights, child participation
- Violence against women & children
- Female genital mutilation & child marriages
- Gender digital divide and online sexual harassment
- Care inequalities
- Sexual reproductive health and rights
- Education
- Gender and migration.
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