Advocacy Manager

Plan International Bangladesh and JAAGO Foundation initiated project name ‘Shomotay Tarunno- Youth for Equality’ to enable young people in all their diversities, including Girls and Young Women (GYW), to challenge gender stereotypes that limit and stop them from enjoying their full potential.

The project aims to follow a youth-centred approach where young women and men in all their diversities (including persons with a diverse gender identity, indigenous people and people with disabilities) are enabled to safely leading the planning, design, and implementation of this project, enjoying and exercising equal rights, with access to resources and engage meaningfully in decision making processes and influence to challenge and address gender stereotypes systems, social norms and harmful practices.

By addressing the harmful gender norms throughout the life-course, building agency, advancing strategic and basic conditions and positions of youth in all their diversity including girls, and young women in the family, society, and state level, while working with boys and young men to embrace gender equality and exercise positive and diverse masculinities, the project will respond to the needs and interests of youth in all their diversities, and foster an enabling environment for gender equality and girls’ rights. This consortium will work together to amplify the rights, representation and resources of young people (with all their diversities including GYW) from local to national level to combat harmful gender stereotypes.