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Consent education
Age-appropriate learning helps girls understand consent, boundaries and respectful relationships.
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Pamoja Project
Helping adolescent girls recognize violence, speak out and claim their right to safety.
LocationSumbawanga DC, Rukwa
PeriodCompleted project
StatusProject archive
About the project
The Pamoja Project worked to end sexual and gender-based violence in Sumbawanga District Council among girls aged 15–17, both in and out of school. It combined awareness campaigns, education on consent, gender equality and respectful relationships, empowerment workshops and access to counselling services.
The opportunity
Girls thrive when knowledge, confidence and community protection work together.
Sexual and gender-based violence can silence girls and limit their education, health and future choices. Pamoja equipped girls with language and confidence to identify abuse and seek support while engaging schools, leaders and stakeholders to create safer environments.
Project design
Connected action. Lasting change.
The project connects four mutually reinforcing areas to address the challenge as a whole.
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Support and counselling
Access to counselling creates a pathway for girls who need confidential care and support.
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Girl-led confidence
Empowerment workshops build the confidence to speak out against violence and protect personal rights.
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Community protection
Schools, leaders and stakeholders work together to make girls’ environments safer.
How the project is delivered
Change grows through practical, locally grounded action.
Participants remain at the center of the process—building knowledge, services, skills and relationships that respond to the realities of their lives.
ParticipantsGirls aged 15–17 in and out of school
DeliveryCampaigns, education, workshops and counselling access
Collaboration10 schools, community leaders and local stakeholders
Intended contribution
From support today to wider choices tomorrow.
Reported results are identified clearly; other statements describe the change the project is designed to support.
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More than 500 girls participated across five primary and five secondary schools.
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Girls strengthened their knowledge of consent, equality and respectful relationships.
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Participants gained confidence to speak out against sexual and gender-based violence.
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The project reports reaching 1,550 adolescent girls and young women overall.
About this project information
View resources Project information and reach figures are drawn from the PGWOCADE project brief supplied for publication. Figures are organization-reported.
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Girls' Education & Protection
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