Gender-Equal Future: Amplifying Adolescent Girls' Leadership with Hamro Palo – Project 023
Project 023 / 2024 – 2028
The project aims to strengthen the autonomy, skills and leadership of adolescent girls and young women, whilst involving boys as allies in promoting gender equality. It works in schools and communities to prevent early marriage, genderbased violence and school drop-out. It also helps to improve the quality of education, promote equality between women and men, and reduce inequalities
- Key objectives :
• To strengthen adolescents’ knowledge of protection, rights, leadership and community engagement
• To promote girls’ leadership and their active participation in decisionmaking within their communities
• To develop adolescents’ life skills and their access to reliable information on sexual and reproductive health
- The main initiatives :
• Organise the Her Turn and His Chance educational programmes, accompanied by follow-up sessions for former participants
• Train teachers and encourage the sharing of good teaching practices amongst partner schools
• Improve WASH facilities, libraries and extracurricular activities in community schools
- Sustainability of the project :
• Strengthen pupil and girls’ committees in schools involved in the project so that they can continue their awareness-raising and mobilisation activities
• Provide long-term training for teachers and support the exchange of best practice amongst partner schools
• Involve local authorities, schools and community organisations to ensure local ownership
Project details
€ 200 027
The project targets diverse beneficiaries, including 400 adolescents in the education and empowerment programs, 160 community schoolteachers in training, and 200 adolescent girls participating in the annual leadership conference, among others. The total reaches an estimated 2000 individuals.
Hamro Palo is a Nepalese non-profit organisation officially established in 2016. It works primarily with teenage girls but also supports boys and women. Its mission is to provide competences and skills to build a secure future, whilst boosting their confidence and their ability to exercise their rights.
Its flagship programme, Her Turn, raises awareness amongst adolescent girls on topics such as health, menstrual hygiene, safety, gender-based violence and early marriage. Hamro Palo also organises workshops for boys, young married women and teenage mothers, with the aim of involving the whole community in the fight against inequalities and harmful social norms.
The organisation currently operates in nine districts and works with 167 community schools. Its school-based programmes have nearly 12,700 former participants, whilst its activities have reached over 31,000 people within the communities. Hamro Palo has also trained nearly 800 young local champions, who are responsible for continuing awareness-raising and support activities at the grassroots level.
Through its workshops, mentoring programmes and girl-led committees, Hamro Palo encourages young people to become agents of change themselves.
- The project will be implemented in the districts of Sindhupalchok and Nuwakot in Bagmati province, as well as in Kathmandu, areas with particular educational and social needs.
- These locations have been chosen on the basis of the urgent need for intervention and prior engagement with local authorities and schools.
Gender equality
Human rights
Menstrual hygiene
Early marriage
Empowerment
SGD 4 - Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
SGD 5 - Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
SGD 10 - Reduce inequality within and among countries
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