Growing up as a boy-child is mured with challenges and uncertainties that present a bleak future. Society has decorated the passage to manhood that provides very few incentives for the boychild to graduate to adulthood. AVoMa, creates platforms that stimulate voluntary conversations and actions to tackle the dominant attitude, practices and expectations that constrain the progressive passage of the boy-child to adulthood. Our approach is multi sector tasking community leaders, local authorities, the private sector, development and humanitarian actors to collaborate and increase opportunities for the boy child and promote respectful and responsible transition to adulthood.

Empowerment through learning and skilling is crucial for adolescent girls and young women to live their full potential and pursue meaningful development goals at individual, household and community levels. Skilling and empowerment through education, transformational leadership development and the advancement of better health right from the onset of adolescence to the early years into adulthood have proven to yield more empowered and decisive adolescent girls and young women. Through the @S3Gi initiative – multi-sectoral actors are mobilized to support interventions that address barriers to skilling and empowerment for adolescent girls and young women 15-24 years. These interventions include but have not been limited to vocational skilling, educational support, economic empowerment, disease prevention and support to take up leadership positions in boardrooms and the public space.

This is a special work stream dedicated to promoting inclusive and intersectional approaches towards the full attainment of AVoMa mission and vision across the humanitarian  -development continuum. Persons with disabilities are not a homogenous group. They experience a range and variety of impairments, including physical, psychosocial, intellectual and sensory conditions, that may or may not come with functional limitations. The diversity of persons with disabilities also includes those with multiple and intersecting identities, such as being from a particular social class or ethnic, religious and racial background; refugee, migrant, asylum -seeking and internally displaced women; living with HIV or any other chronic condition that hinders full participation in public life. The systemic marginalization, attitudinal and environmental barriers persons with disability, and more specifically women with disabilities face- lead to lower economic and social status; increase their risk of violence and abuse; lead to discrimination and constrain access to education, health care, access to justice and deter effective civic and political participation on an equal basis with others. AVoMa is deliberate and intentional in promoting the full inclusion and meaningful participation of persons, especially women with disability in public life as a modest contribution to the collective effort towards the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals 5, 10 and 16 among others.