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Career and leadership skills
Practical learning helps participants set goals, communicate and take initiative.
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Program focus
Career & Economic Development
Skills, voice and pathways to economic agency.
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About the program
Girls and young women deserve more than aspiration—they need practical skills, trusted guidance and room to lead. We help turn ambition into pathways for work, enterprise and economic participation.
We advance the economic empowerment of women and girls through capacity building, skills development and stronger voice.
Why it matters
Potential grows when opportunity becomes practical and reachable.
Limited access to career guidance, financial knowledge, networks and decision-making spaces can narrow young women’s choices. Our work builds skills while strengthening the confidence and connections needed to use them.
What we focus on
Action that connects people, services and systems.
We address immediate barriers while helping build stronger conditions for the long term.
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Financial literacy
Young women strengthen everyday skills for planning, saving and making informed financial decisions.
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Enterprise readiness
Participants explore entrepreneurship, problem-solving and pathways toward small-scale enterprise.
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Voice and networks
Supportive connections and leadership opportunities help young women participate with confidence.
How change happens
Community first. Connection throughout.
Listen
We begin with the experiences, priorities and ideas of girls, young women and their communities.
Connect
We connect knowledge, people and services so support becomes practical and reachable.
Strengthen
We build local capacity and relationships that can sustain progress beyond a single activity.
The change we work toward
Progress visible in lives and systems.
These are the changes this program is designed to contribute to over time.
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Girls and young women can set clearer education, career and enterprise goals.
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Participants apply stronger leadership, life and financial skills.
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Young women build confidence to participate in economic decisions.
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Peer and community networks provide more support for girls’ ambitions.
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Her Career Forum
An annual forum helping in-school and out-of-school girls explore career interests, meet mentors and see what real career pathways look like.
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Four focus areas. One shared goal.
Work with us
Lasting change takes partners who share the commitment.
Join us in building safer, healthier and more equitable opportunities for girls and young women.