Project profile — Women's Voice and Leadership - Mali

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased efficiency in implementing local women’s rights organizations programmes and activities through an innovative approach that contributes to advance gender equality; (2) increased efficiency of advocacy of networks that bring together organizations that defend women's rights in order to generate impacts on policies and legal and social institutions; and (3) institutional strengthening, in an innovative manner, of local women’s rights organizations in Mali especially those representing vulnerable and marginalized women and girls.

Results achieved as of March 2023 include: (1) 19 local women's rights organizations (LWRO) implemented Positive Masculinity program; (2) mapping of LWRO and platforms, alliances and networks presented and sensitized at the national level to their counterparts and technical and financial partners through media workshops, roundtables, radio broadcasts, blogs and video capsules. These activities reached 182 people directly, including 60 women, 49 young women, 30 girls, 37 men and 6 boys, and 500,000 people indirectly, including 340,000 women, through 106 broadcasts of messages in two local languages during a radio campaign in Mopti; and (3) MUSOYA application updated to include an audio dimension enabling non-literate women and girls to use the application, taking into account the language barrier so that they can take full advantage of the application's potential.