Ongoing project
Women’s Voice and Leadership in Senegal (WVL - Senegal)
December 2018 to March 2024
$6,300,000 CAD
Global Affairs Canada
100,000 women and girls
In Senegal, socio-cultural constraints and customary law limit women's access to education, property, inheritance, land and decision-making bodies. The VLF - Senegal project supports 20 organizations and 5 Senegalese networks defending the rights of women and girls. With them, it works to overcome certain difficulties to ensure their succession, find funding, mobilize the population and guarantee their proper long-term functioning.
The ultimate goal of the project is to enable Senegalese women to fully enjoy their rights and advance equality between women and men in the country.
Strengthening women's and girls' rights movements
A program to support 20 organizations and 5 networks promoting women's and girls' rights to education, property, land and inheritance
Over the past few decades, Senegal has ratified several international conventions and adopted policies to promote equality between women and men. Women's rights organizations have played a leading role in the adoption of these measures. Despite these advances, women's movements today face major difficulties.
Many constraints still limit the rights of Senegalese women. The VLF - Senegal project strengthens the operations of women's rights organizations, increases the scope and quality of their services, and consolidates their capacity for social monitoring and advocacy. Ultimately, the aim is to make women's rights a reality that benefits Senegalese society as a whole.
Meaningful Results
Supporting strategic local organizations means advancing the rights of women and girls in Senegal!
100,000
people reached by the project
20
women's and girls' rights organizations improving the effectiveness of their programs and strengthening their institutional capacities
5
networks improving the effectiveness of their advocacy to influence policies and legal and social institutions
Our partners
Thanks to our financial, consortium and implementation partners without whom this project could not be realized
