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We partner with local organisations in emerging market countries, and other change-makers, to enable marginalised young people to transform their lives and communities.
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The Multiplier Effect: New Blog on AVPN
Aleem Jivraj, COO at Nomura and Co-Chair of EMpower's Hong Kong Board, underscores the need for flexible funding and investing in organisational capacity within the nonprofit sector.
Read the BlogUnlocking Girls’ Leadership Starts with Asking the Right Questions
In a powerful new op-ed for Inside Philanthropy, Jayanthi A Pushkaran, Senior Programme Officer for Adolescent Girls, discusses EMpower's highly participatory approach in listening to girls.
Read the Op-EdCSW68 | Amplify Her: Centring Girls’ Voices in Decision-Making
On March 19, we hosted an in-person parallel event at the UN's Commission on the Status of Women. In the lead up, we held 5 events—in Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, and Mexico—to hear directly from young women and girls on their priorities, challenges, and journeys. We created a short video that captures highlights of what they had to say.
Watch the VideoCSW68 | Driving Change: How Non-Traditional Livelihoods Can Advance Gender Equality, Insights from India
We co-hosted a virtual side event at the UN's Commission on the Status of Women on March 11, 2024, exploring how non-traditional livelihoods in India progress the agenda of gender equity.
Watch the RecordingWebinar | Why Participatory Approaches?
The second in our EMpowering Her Voice webinar series aimed to unpack the ‘why’ of participatory approaches. We asked some important questions and held space to exchange insights, experiences, and everything in between on all things participatory approaches.
Watch the WebinarEMpower Impact to Date
For more than 23 years, we have worked alongside local organisations and young people to advance innovative programming and best practices to enable youth to live their full potential.
1,465
Grants Made
$50 Million
Awarded
1 Million
Youth Directly Impacted
3.5 Million
Lives Touched
We work globally to empower marginalised youth, especially girls.
There are more than 1.8 billion young people in the world, and many emerging market countries currently have their largest populations of young people ever. And these numbers are only expected to grow over the next 10 years. Experiencing significant poverty, discrimination, violence, and exclusion, young people living at the margins face the lingering effects and challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and continued economic upheaval. The last several years have taken an unprecedented toll on their schooling, health, safety, and livelihoods. Our support to local partners aims to create more opportunities, assets, networks, and safe spaces for young people. EMpower provides financial grants and other value-added support to local organisations in emerging market countries in three interconnected areas that are key to youth development:
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Learning Together
Our Adolescent Girls Learning Communities in Mumbai and Delhi—safe spaces where girls can come together and be in the driver’s seat—recently celebrated their 10th anniversary. This toolkit features the voices and expertise of these girls and includes practical and actionable guidance for individuals and organisations planning girl-centred programmes. It includes fresh ideas on how to create and sustain programmes that enable girls to lead, in their own lives and in their communities.
Latest News
- A Word with Prarthana Kumar
- Posted 16 April 2024
- Finding the Power
- Posted 16 April 2024
- A Word with Rachel Andrews
- Posted 20 March 2024
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Our Board Directors and the Leadership Council underwrite all of our Management, General and Fundraising expenses, so 100% of your donation goes directly to empowering marginalised young people.
