The document describes ISF’s 2026-2029 development cooperation programme for promoting women and girls’ agency and power over their bodies and lives in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somaliland.
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The programme aims to improve the lives of nearly 120,000 women and girls. It builds on ISF’s past achievements and lessons learned and has been prepared in a participatory process with ISF staff and local partners. It responds to pressing challenges at a time when equality and women’s status are at risk of deteriorating in many parts of the world.
Chapter 1 justifies the programme’s focus, illuminating the root causes upholding violence against women and girls (VAWG), women’s limited access to economic opportunities, and the narrow space for women’s rights activism. The chapter also entails highlights of ISF’s achievements and lessons learnt during the past programmes.
The theory of change in Chapter 2 defines how ISF aims to build women and girls’ agency, shift power relations, and transform structures when preventing harmful practices and violence against women and girls (outcome 1), improving women’s livelihoods (outcome 2), and strengthening the local civil societies in promoting women’s rights (outcome 3).
The country programmes described in Chapter 3 illuminate how the theory of change will be applied in programme countries including key approaches and stakeholders in the specific country contexts, as well as who will participate and benefit from the programme. Based on the country programmes, best-fit local partner organizations will be identified to implement the programme.
ISF’s operating model is described in Chapter 4, including the human rights-based approach, the results-based management system, and the risk management system.
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