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Today’s Girl, Tomorrow’s Woman (Hoje Menina, Amanhã Mulher)

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Recife - Brazil

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Latin America and the Caribbean
Range of Demographic Size
1,000,000 inhabitants or more (metropolis)

5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere in the world.

5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.

5.5 Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life.

5.6 Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences.

E - Gender equality

I - Afro-descendants: rights and combating racial discrimination

American Convention on Human Rights

• Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women (Convention of Belém do Pará)

Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

Summary

The local public policy “Today’s Girl, Tomorrow’s Woman” is a UNICEF project developed together with the Secretary of Women of Recife, the Embassy of the United States of America (USA) and the non-governmental organization (NGO) Centro das Mulheres do Cabo, whose general objective is to contribute to the fulfillment of SDG 5: “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.”

Within this framework, the project works with children and adolescents in a socially vulnerable situation with the following specific purposes: empower them on their sexual, reproductive, civil and political rights; promote their rights in general and encourage them to become “citizenship multipliers” in their communities. For that purpose, this initiative includes various activities such as the development of workshops, role-playing within the scope of the Secretary of Women and cultural activities.

Finally, it is worth pointing out that this project also takes into account the development of training activities in gender mainstreaming for public officials of the Municipality of Recife.

Implementation Date:

Start: 09 / 1 / 2017

End: End: Currently in force

Education - Education in Human Rights Gender and sexual diversity - Women Gender and sexual diversity - Gender violence Gender and sexual diversity - Domestic violence
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The data collected in the last census of Recife show a high proportion of children and adolescents in a situation of high social vulnerability, exposed to domestic violence, drug trafficking and adolescent pregnancy in different neighborhoods and/or communities of the city. The lack of information and perspective, as well as the environment where they live, do not help them progress towards a social change or the choice of a different life: this segment of the population is strongly influenced by their social reality and tends to copy apprehended behaviors as a way of survival.
● To encourage young inhabitants of socially vulnerable areas to turn into “multipliers” of citizenship in their respective communities. ● To empower girls and young women in relation to their sexual, reproductive, civil and political rights. ● To promote the rights of children and adolescents that are most affected by inequalities. ● To promote gender equality and empower girls and women.
The Secretary of Women of Recife leads the implementation of this public policy and coordinates the interaction with the different institutions that take part as partners and contributors: UNICEF, the Embassy of the United States, the Consulate of China and the NGO Centro de Mulheres do Cabo.
State network of primary and secondary education (public schools): the public network cooperates with the selection of the population that will benefit from the project Today’s Girl, Tomorrow’s Woman.
The Municipality of Recife provides for, withing its local regulatory framework, actions to promote the rights of children and adolescents, namely: ● Municipal Plan of Youth, passed by Act 18,279 dated 2016. ● Municipal Plan to Deal with Gender Violence with the Secretary of Women, created by Decree No. 27,854, dated 2014. ● Municipal Plan to Deal with Sexual Violence against Children and Adolescents of the city of Recife, established by Resolution No. 27, dated 2010, of the Municipal Council for the Defense of the Rights of Children and Adolescents (COMDICA). In the National level: The Statue of the Child and Adolescent, that protects their rights.
Children and teenagers
Seminars/events
Social/citizen participation
Awareness and/or information campaigns
Education and training
Institutional strengthening
Building of partnerships, networks, associations and coalitions
Actions that are part of the intervention strategy of this project: ● Institutional interaction with public schools (State educational level) for the selection of children and youngsters who are part of the project. ● Institutional strengthening of the initiative: search for partners to finance the project, spread it and show its results. ● Institutional strengthening of the Municipality of Recife: training of public officials and technical assistance to draft a local gender plan. ● Raising awareness and promoting rights: workshops, role-playing within the scope of the Secretary of Women of the Municipality, collection of data related to needs and proposals, development of cultural activities.
It promotes in children and youngsters an approach to social change within their communities, through education and recognition of their rights. In this sense, departing from the generated learnings, children and youngsters can act as social “multipliers”.
United Nations Fund Children’s Fund (UNICEF): mentor/founder international Organization promoting the project. It is the partner responsible for the methodological design of the project and the management of financial resources to implement it. Centro de Mulheres do Cabo: an NGO that participates in the definition of contents and design of materials and that is in charge of the workshops. Embassy of the Unites States of America in Recife: guarantees the financing of the project activities. Consulate of China in Recife: it also contributes to the financing of this initiative.
Before its implementation, this project was presented to the population it was addressed to (girls and adolescents aged 12 to 18) and their families. Topics of interest of said population were also noted. These helped in the definition of workshop content (gender identity, race, sexual and reproductive rights, domestic and gender-based violence) and in the design of their different activities (role-playing, awareness activities, etc.). The project was developed in three geographical points distributed in the city of Recife: Centro Comunitário da Paz (COMPAZ) Eduardo Campos, in Alto Santa Teresita; COMPAZ Ariano Suassuna, in the Cordeiro neighborhood y in Centro da Mulher Metropolitana Júlia Santiago.
Both the Municipality of Recife and UNICEF aim at continuing in time this initiative which, up to now, has had two implementation cycles: 2017-2018 and 2019-2020.
Since the very beginning, planning, monitoring and assessment meetings together with the Centro da Mulheres do Cabo and the Secretary of Women of Recife have been carried out within the framework of this project. Each stage has been assessed and the results of the workshops with girls and adolescents were publicly disseminated following a schedule and an action plan.
Local goverment
International organization
International cooperation
● Qualitative: o Positive changes in the understanding of children and adolescents in relation to the subjects dealt with in workshops. o Participation of youngsters in the Second Brazilian Congress on Sexual Violence against children and adolescents, contributing to the formulation of policy initiatives. ● Quantitative: o More than 30 municipal officials that were trained and made aware in adolescents programs and policies. o 7 thematic workshops implemented in three neighborhoods in the city of Recife. o 411 girls and adolescents took part in the thematic workshops on gender identity; race, classes and social inequalities; sexual and reproductive rights; domestic and gender-based violence; respect to diversity; right to citizenship and leadership and work in networks. o 6 youngsters that participated in the project went to university to study careers such as Law, Social Work, Human Resources, Gastronomy, Physiotherapy and Political Sciences.
Reports were drafted with photographs, numerical logs and qualitative descriptions of each activity developed within the framework of the project.
The Municipality of Recife and UNICEF are the organizations in charge of disseminating in the local area both the initiative and its results through their websites. See more in: https://www.unicef.org/brazil/comunicados-de-imprensa/projeto-de-empoderamento-de-meninas-chega-ao-segundo-ciclo-com-turma-de-meninos http://www2.recife.pe.gov.br/noticias/06/05/2019/principais-parceiros-do-hoje-menina-amanha-mulher-encontraram-se-para-planejar
UNICEF BRAZIL: Young girls empowerment section:
Municipality of Recife:


Instrumentos

5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere in the world.

5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.

5.5 Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life.

5.6 Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences.

E - Gender equality
I - Afro-descendants: rights and combating racial discrimination
American Convention on Human Rights
• Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women (Convention of Belém do Pará)
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

Location

Region
Latin America and the Caribbean
Range of Demographic Size
1,000,000 inhabitants or more (metropolis)

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