The young women of We Lead’s Community of Action (CoA) in Guatemala decided to tell their stories through portraits of their bodies in the booklet “We Decide, We Resist, and We Exist. From Radical Tenderness”. This strong stance calls attention to the various specific demands of these women rightsholders.

In February 2023, various women’s rights organizations came together and produced an election charter seeking gender equality within political parties in Zimbabwe.

This case study examines how the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights has built and supported a grassroots sub-regional youth movement to enhance young people’s access to sexual and reproductive health services and information, including safe and legal abortion.

The Regional SRHR Fund developed a Malawi Age of Consent contextual analysis with the aim to support the undertaking of an evidence-led advocacy process by focusing on age of consent barriers to adolescents’ access to SRH services in Malawi.

A case study of Zambian Youth Platform promoting adolescent access to sexual and reproductive health services

The case study is part of the Regional SRHR Fund’s documentation of case studies aimed at supporting cross learning and knowledge sharing to enable organizations conceptualize, design and coordinate adolescent SRHR advocacy. This initiative has been made possible with support from Sida through the Regional SRHR Fund.

The Regional SRHR Fund developed a policy brief with the aim to support law, policy and practice that promote and protect adolescents’ access to SRH information and services in East and Southern Africa.

Her Stories is the newsletter of Hivos’ She Leads program. It showcases some of the community work and impact realized by Hivos and the partners involved in She Leads.

HIV and AIDS are not purely medical problems. They are development and human rights issues. This has been Hivos’ conviction since the early 1990s when we were one of the first development organizations to respond to the pandemic.

The We Lead partnership (2021 – 2025) is committed to protecting the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of adolescent girls and young women. This manifesto explains what we collectively stand for.