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Advocating for Adolescent Girls in Latin America and Africa
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Advocating for Adolescent Girls
in Latin America and Africa
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AGALIGoal
– Improve adolescent girls’ health, human rights, education, and socio-economic wellbeing
Strategies– Capacity building workshop– Dissemination and outreach– Seed grants and technical assistance
Participants– Civil society leaders– Policymakers– Advocates
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AGALI
International Health Programs (IHP) of the Public Health Institute (PHI)
UN Foundation (UNF): $750,000/3 years
Focus countries for 2009/10• Africa: Liberia, Malawi, Ethiopia• Latin America: Guatemala (plus Honduras,
El Salvador, Nicaragua, & Mexico)
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The AGALI Model
Improve adolescent girls’ health, education, and socio-economic
wellbeing
Enhance leadership and strengthen
institutional capacity
Support implementationof effective
advocacy strategies
Training DisseminationTechnical Assistance
Seed Grants
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1. Leadership Training• Build leadership
capacity to advocate on behalf of adolescent girls
• Share knowledge &
best practices • Develop
advocacy strategies to advance girls’ education, health, human rights, socio-economic wellbeing
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2. DisseminationParticipants build local capacity and commitment by conducting trainings for local organizations and with girls’ groups.
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3. Seed Grant FundingIHP/PHI awards $10,000 grants to support
the strongest advocacy projects.
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4. Technical AssistanceIHP/PHI provides TA to AGALI participants:
•Proposal development
•Project implementation
•Networking and outreach
•Institutional strengthening
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2010 Plans
• June 8-14, 2010: AGALI capacity building workshop in Alexandria, Egypt
• August, 2010: Competitive RFP for advocacy project proposals
• Fall, 2010: Follow-up institutional strengthening workshop and project monitoring