Our Approach
Values
- Focus on the needy
- Promote people-centered development
- Tolerance; Acceptance and respect for different opinions, equity, equality, ethnicity, beliefs, sex, race, social/health status and physical appearance.
- Integrity; Delivering and acting according to expectations and requirements in a transparent, accountable, honest, just, fair and responsible manner.
- Solidarity; Standing together, championing for a common cause, where mutual trust and commitment are adhered.
Areas of interest
- HIV/AIDS, Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR)
- Gender Based Violence and Ending Early child Marriages
- Youth with Disabilities
- Education
- Hunger and food security
- Water and Sanitation (menstruation for girls)
- Climate change and environmental
- Youth governance and accountability
- Democracy and Youth participation
Objective
- To improve gender equality and equity through advocacy and lobbying and promotion of human rights and health for all
- Build capacity and empowering girls and women towards achieving their full and active participation in development activities
- Enhancing youth involvement and participation of the grassroots in policymaking and implementation
- To provide information channels for the enhancement of awareness of women’s rights, and services available to communities (reproductive health, education, and training).
- To promote and advocating for clean water and hygiene education including menstruation management in schools
- To empower local communities and women in particular to self-sufficiency using integrated approaches for income generation that contribute to poverty reduction.
- To build relationships and collaborate on projects that promote and disseminate the important voices of young women, girls, and youth in general.
Target Population
SG4G Fizi particularly targets the vulnerable, marginalized, and underserved rural and semi-urban Congolese communities with a special focus on young women, girls, children, and Youth at large. We target in and out of school young women and girls. We work with Secondary schools, Colleges, Universities, communities, and young people aged 10 to 30 yrs who are hard to reach.
Areas for development
- Lack of funds for outreaches program in schools and communities’ areas
- Inadequate capacity training programmes for girls and young women educators (trainers at local level) to effectively implement various programmes.
- Lack of funding for planned programs and activities
- Inadequate administrative support
- Misconception of gender (meaning up lifting of both men and women)
- Lack of external support to support the underserved vulnerable and needy girls.
Achievements
- Participated and trained on how to set up a hotline for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) and Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
- Trained as an advocate for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR)
- Establishment of 6 girls clubs and 2 sex workers groups
- Conduction of community mobilization on climate change
- Establishment of a Facebook page for Let’s Talk about Reproductive Health
- Conduction of safe abortion workshop on the use of Misoprostol Pills
- Conduction of Climate change primary school field trip
- Participation in 16 days of activism
- HIV/AIDS open day interaction
- Conduction of environmental protection and awareness in schools and communities
- Participated in 5th African Sexuality and education conference
- Campaigned against arms trade (Say No to Militarism in Eastern D R Congo)
- Organized peaceful demonstrations and sit-in protests against both the government and United Nations (UN) officials’ inaction not to act upon sexual violence that women and girls are victims in eastern D R Congo – “Girls Protest for Justice” campaign.
Future Plans
- To establish counseling centre for victimized girls and young women
- To establish hotline
- Engage in intense resource mobilization
- To carry out various activities on rights of the women, sex workers and girls
- To establish and strengthen school clubs on water and sanitation and hygiene campaign
- To be the leading organization in psychosocial support vulnerable and victimized children, girls, and young women
- To provide educational materials along with uniforms for vulnerable and needy girls
- To carry out community sensitization programs regularly
- Promote the development and implementation of appropriate national legal and policy framework that will provide adequate protection for the women and girl child and the protection and fulfillment of socio-economic and political rights including gender equity and equality which influence vulnerability to hindrance in development activities
