• Linking & learning among youthadvocates & activists

• Ambition to strengthen youth-led advocacy and youth-movement building

• Level-up their activism and ourcommitments

GAA is about young women’s and girls’ rights

After Movie Girls Advocacy Alliance

https://youtu.be/jkUgZ1oQTEs

For clips and stories: www.girlsadvocacyalliance.org

Challenges youth advocates face:

• Exclusion of girls and young women from leadership and decision-making processes and positions.

• Barriers to- and (physical) attacks on- girls and young women’s rights to speak out in public or online.

• The discriminating portrayal of girls and young women in the media, which in turn confirms and reinforces gender stereotypes and roles.

WorkshopsStatements, tools for Lobby and Advocacy, sharingstories, alignment with National Programmes

Public event: Level-Up for Girls Event

For Example:

• Make sure you make it easy and accessible for youth to participate.

• Have policies in place that are youth friendly and have people working who understand and can communicate with youth.

• Capacity building and financial support to youth led organisations, make sure they can do implementation themselves and they receive their own funding

Tuesday September 3rd, New World Campus, The HagueHow can we better support, and work with youth advocates for gender equality?

Meeting with members

of Parliament

Follow Up

• Each country has a lobby strategy plan

• Work on implementation together with the youth advocate groups in country

Example Liberia:

Youth advocate is joining the monthly meetings of the GAA together with the National Child Rights Coalition in Liberia. Theyare working on engagement with Human Rights Accountability Mechanims on International Level.