Women Economic Empowerment

WIDTRUST acknowledges that greater economic empowerment of women and girls will enable them and their families to achieve greater independence and power. We seek through this pillar, to strengthen women and girls’ position as key economic actors. This has been identified as one way of reducing their exploitation, marginalisation and vulnerability. This will be done by addressing the main barriers to their inclusion and active participation in key economic processes and structures.

General objective

To enable women and girls to have greater and equal access and control over economic resources, opportunities and assets.

Strategic Interventions

Advocacy

• Advocate for inclusion and participation of women and girls in available socio-political and economic processes positions and spaces; as well as influence and shape debate on economic inclusion.
• Support women and girls’ access to knowledge, assets and business opportunities.
• Contribute to transformation of systems, structures and norms that limit women and girls’ economic empowerment.

Capacity Building

Sensitize women and girls on existing economic rights and opportunities.

• Strengthen women and girls’ ability to meaningfully engage or benefit from public and private economic opportunities and processes.
• Develop and scale up innovative solutions to women’s economic empowerment.
• Provide technical assistance to actors engaged in, or with a potential to support women and girls’ economic empowerment.

Access To Justice

Significant steps have been made to enhance the responsiveness of Somali’s legal system and establish stronger safeguards to prevent violations against women groups, survivors of sexual gender-based violence (SGBV) still face significant barriers in accessing justice. This often leads to re-traumatization and heightened risk of further violence or death. This pillar seeks to address challenges linked to limited access to information by women and girls about their rights, difficulty in obtaining legal services, as well as financial insecurities that affects their access to legal support, leading to difficulty in navigating court systems. These conditions reduce the effectiveness of the justice systems in preventing and providing redress for victims of SGBV.

General objective

To increase access to appropriate legal redress for victims and survivors of VAWG.

Strategic Interventions

Advocacy

• Undertake regular monitoring, research and analysis of the prevailing policy, legal and institutional contexts.
• Contribute to inclusive legal, policy and institutional reforms at National levels.
• Advocate for implementation of existing gender progressive laws, policies, treaties and protocols.

Capacity Building

• Provide technical support to criminal justice actors, policy makers and other relevant duty bearers on women’s human rights and entitlements.
• Institute, enjoin and profile outcomes of strategic impact/public interest litigation cases on VAWG.
• Establish and share best practices on SGBV litigation and case management.

Movement Building

• Collaborate and coordinate efforts of actors engaged in facilitating access to justice for survivors of VAWG and other violations

Leadership Development

This pillar responds to the prevailing low levels of occupation of key leadership and decision-making positions by women across different sectors and levels. WIDTRUST through this pillar aims to put the leadership agenda at the centre of national dialogue and priorities. WIDTRUST seeks to change views on women’s leadership, catalyze access to opportunities, and mentor and position women and girls as key leaders at community, national and international levels.

General objective

To increase women and girls’ occupation and meaningful participation in leadership processes at all levels across all sectors.

Strategic Interventions

Advocacy

• Advocate for full implementation of the COK two thirds gender rule of National levels.
• Champion women and girls’ inclusion in key decision-making processes, places and spaces.
• Transform attitudes by communities, citizens and key actors towards women leadership.

Capacity Building

• Strengthen the capacity of existing and potential women leaders.
• Facilitate events/actions to increase visibility and celebration of successful women leaders.

Institutional Development

This strategic pillar is inward-looking and will mainly focus on internal organizational well- being of WIDTRUST. It seeks to build on existing organizational strengths while addressing emerging capacity gaps.

General objective

To enable WIDTRUST consolidate its position as a dynamic, relevant, effective and resilient institution. It will focus on the following areas:

Marketing, Resources Mobilization and Investments

Specific objective: To acquire and reserve sufficient resources for WIDTRUST to operate sustainably.

Strategic Interventions:

• Develop and operationalize a resource mobilization strategy, policy and plan.
• Strengthen the resource mobilisation capacity of WidTrust staff and board.
• Strengthen local resources generation and engage in assets building.
• Invest in relationship building with key stakeholders and benefactors.
• Develop and implement a marketing and communication strategy, policy and plan.
• Undertake sustained traditional and digital media presence and campaigns.

Knowledge Management, Research and MERL

Specific objective: To generate, analyze, document and share quality data to aid programe planning, delivery, organizational learning, decision-making, visibility and accountability.

Strategic Interventions:

• Research and disseminate knowledge and information on topical VAWG concerns.
• Support development and up-scaling of innovative and sustainable programme approaches or models.
• Generate, document and disseminate best practices.
• Further improve and fully operationalize the WIDTRUST MERL system.
• Establish and fully operationalize a Management Information System (MIS).

Internal Systems, Policies and Structures

Specific objective: To establish and maintain an internal environment that safeguards the integrity of WIDTRUST processes and resources.

Strategic Interventions:

• Establish and continually improve automated systems for Finance, Human Resource and Administration.
• Develop and regularly review organizational policies, procedures and systems.
• Enforce appropriate internal controls and oversight and compliance mechanisms.
• Continually support and invest in staff development.
• Align the organization structure to changes in the strategy.

Access to Comprehensive SGBV and Sexual Reproductive Health

This strategic pillar will focus on the increasing access to appropriate sexual gender-based violence SGBV responses and life-saving sexual reproductive health rights services for women and girls. We will focus on addressing challenges of VAWG, stigmatization and discrimination of users and providers of sexual reproductive health rights services, as well as growing cases of unsafe abortions and harmful practices such FGM and beading.

General objective

This strategic pillar will focus on the increasing access to appropriate sexual gender-based violence (SGBV) responses and life-saving sexual reproductive health rights (SRHR) services for women and girls. We will focus on addressing challenges of violence against women groups (VAWG), stigmatization and discrimination of users and providers of SRHR services, as well as growing cases of unsafe abortions and harmful practices such as FGM and beading.

Strategic Interventions:

   1. Advocacy

• Build and share evidence on emerging issues on SRHR, VAWG and related violations.
• Undertake campaigns against SGBV, harmful practices and retrogressive attitudes against women and girls.
• Carry out campaigns towards greater awareness of SRHR and access and use of SRH services.
• Advocate for greater prioritization of SGBV and SRHR in federal government planning and development processes.

   2. Capacity Building

• Strengthen women and girls’ voice and agency on issues of SRHR, VAWG and other violations.
• Document and share (new) knowledge and solutions (best practices, models and strategies).
• Mobilize, organize and strengthen capacity of change agents on identified need areas.
• Support existence of responsive media that promotes women and girls’ rights and freedoms.

   3. Movement Building

• Support key actors to organize, analyze, learn, strategise and act on emerging issues on VAWG.
• Establish, engage and provide leadership in strategic women’s networks and movements.
• Mobilize and strengthen a critical mass of progressive thinkers, Women’s Human Rights Defenders (WHRD) and other relevant actors/change agents on VAWG and SRHR.

   4. Service Delivery

• Facilitate comprehensive rehabilitation and redress for survivors of SGBV.
• Provide direct legal advice and referral services to victims of SGBV and other violations.
• Facilitate greater access to SRHR services to women and girls.

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