Activities

at the Inaugural Women’s Global Leadership Institute back in 1991, the sixteen days of activism was launched to campaign against gender based violence against women and girls that had become a virus in the world globally in line to human rights and protection. 29 years down the road these days have continued to be celebrated under different annual themes which has been coordinated each year by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership and with different activities fixed unto them for example massive awareness creation on SGBV both on media and directly with the community. As of the 2020 global theme: “Orange the world: Fund, Respond, Prevent, and Collect!” while adhering to the COVID19 prevention guidelines in kyaka II settlement, AWYAD together with other IPs led by OPM and UNHCR came up with a number of activities such as radio talk shows, women seminars, focus group discussions, support of SGBV survivors, tree planting among others. These were all planned in line with the theme and topics of discussion were chosen accordingly.

WORLD AIDS DAY

AWYAD together with other implementing partners in kyaka II settlement held up a candle light dinner in commemoration of the world AIDs day with the theme; “Global solidarity and shared responsibility” requires us to view global health responses, including the AIDS response, in a new way. It requires the world to come together to ensure that: Health is fully financed. Governments must come together and find new ways to ensure that health care is fully funded. No one country can do it alone. Domestic and international funding for health must be increased. Health systems are strengthened. Investments in the AIDS response in the past few decades have helped to strengthen health systems and have been supporting the COVID-19 response. But more needs to be done to further strengthen health systems and protect health-care workers. Access is ensured. Life-saving medicines, vaccines and diagnostics must be considered as public goods. There must be global solidarity and shared responsibility to ensure that no individual, community or country is left behind in accessing life-saving health commodities. Human rights are respected. A human rights approach applied everywhere will produce sustainable results for health. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fault lines in society and how key populations have been left behind in many parts of the world. The rights of women and girls, and gender equality, are at the Centre. This directly links with the sixteen days of gender activism since women and children are the most vulnerable in such kind of situations.

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

International Women’s Day 2021

With this year’s theme for the International women’s day; “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world“, celebrates the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes nurses who have dedicated themselves to serving the society extending their healing hand to all people suffering from the pandemic, all single mothers who have continued providing basic needs for their families amidst the lockdown and closure of workplaces and those that have taken lead in providing for their families where their husbands have lost their jobs

INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY CELEBRATIONS

Theme: Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health.

In 1999, General Assembly resolution 54/120 endorsed the recommendation made by the World Conference of Ministers of Youth (Lisbon, 8-12 August 1998) that 12 August be declared International Youth Day. Such a day provides an opportunity to celebrate young peoples’ views and initiatives on a global scale. Today, young people hold a crucial role working towards the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and related frameworks. Recent global priorities have centered on fighting the impacts of climate change, unemployment, poverty, gender inequality, conflict, and migration. The international community has born witness to young people’s unprecedented mobilization around the world, which has shown the massive power they possess to hold decision-makers accountable. The Decade of Action announced by the Secretary- General in September of 2019 requires people action, inclusive of youth to generate an unstoppable movement pushing for such required transformations.

DAY OF THE AFRICAN CHILD