IGNITE (Inspiring Girls and Grassroots Organizations for Inclusive and Transformative Education) is a consortium led by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in partnership with Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa), and the René Mowad Foundation (RMF), with funding from the French Development Agency (AFD).
This 10 million euro project over a 36-month period has built and supported a network of 86 feminist, women-led, youth-led, and grassroots CSOs with flexible funding, organisational and technical capacity sharing, and tailored feminist accompaniment. Together, they have reached approximately 83,000 adolescent girls, including 5,200 refugees and internally displaced girls.
In some of the most constrained contexts in Africa and the Middle East, they work to challenge harmful social norms, strengthen local leadership, and advance safe and inclusive education for adolescent girls.
Support and strengthen feminist-led CSOs to implement transformative models of shifting social norms to ensure marginalized girls have improved access to inclusive and gender-transformative education and are empowered to claim their rights.
Promote sustainability of feminist CSOs and assert their role in transforming social norms toward gender equality through capacity strengthening and south-south learning.
Inspiring Girls and Grassroots Networks for Inclusive and Transformative Education (IGNITE) is a 36-month project that aims to amplify the voices and agency of feminist-led CSOs and adolescent girls to subvert gender-related social norms that hinder girls’ participation in education and promote girls’ social inclusion and empowerment.
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