PSV focus on ensuring that girls who are at risk of rape and child marriages can be protected and remain in school.

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1 APPLICANT INFORMATION PEUPLES SANS VOIX (PSV) is a nonprofit organization based in Eastern DRCongo registered under the certificate Just.G.S.112/S -KV/1279.PSV comes to promoting the dignity of women left to their own devices through the inclusion of social groups and communities currently marginalized social, cultural, political and economic. PSV runs with a board of directors of 7 women with various qualifications and a staff leaders of 4 women and girls. We work within communities to enable the most marginalized women and girls to understand, and have the confidence, to claim their rights and improve their lives., PSV works together with local groups of women and girls to empower them in their communities and increase their political and civil participation.we provide information for women about their rights and where to seek help We challenge and change attitudes and behaviors and we undertake projects addressing issues such as gender-based violence, youth empowerment and girl s education. WHAT WE DO PSV focus on ensuring that girls who are at risk of rape and child marriages can be protected and remain in school. PSV works with schools in Walungu town providing information to parents, teachers and community elders on the value of girls education. The schools run girls clubs where girls can share information and support each other as well as educate communities to refrain from harmful practices. Since 2013 PSV has been working to enable 40 vulnerable women to control their livelihoods and contribute to the development of their families and communities. PSV brings together poor women, who are left out of decision making, to carry out income generating projects as well as providing them with information on violence against women Being organized in self-help groups enables women who are often isolated by poverty and HIV and AIDS to take action individually and collectively against violence; By offering psychosocial care services in post-conflict, PSV have had great success in bringing together women survivors of the armed conflict in Walungu Territory to talk about and overcome the problems that they faced during and after the civil war. Another key focus area for PSV is the promotion of women s rights and awarenessraising around gender-based violence and provide counseling services to communities and traumatized survivors of war and gender-based violence.

2 PROJECT TITLE: EMPOWER 25 CONGOLESE YOUNG GIRLS TO BECOME LEADERS 1. BACKROUND AND CHALLENGE It is difficult for girls and young women in Walungu to partake in decision-making at every level, from their families to the government. Decisions are often made about critical issues affecting girls' lives, such as early marriage, without the input of girls themselves. They rarely have the agency to make decisions in their lives on anything from when they marry and whether they go to school to the amount of resources invested in them. We will work with 25 young girls in eastern DRCongo to transform them into leaders. II. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT The project aims to empower 25 young rural women leaders with the self-confidence, skills, support and resources to become leaders in their communities, thereby increasing the number of female role models, mentors and leaders across Walungu in DRCongo III.PROJECT GOALS 1. Enable women and girls to fight domestic violence while accessing legal rights 2.Facilitate girls empowerment through clubs where girls would give peer to peer support. 3. Transform thousands of girls from marginalization into leaders through girl s club meetings. 4. Mobilize the community to give priority for girl s education IV. PROJECT ACTIVITIES 1. Provide 25 young women with 3 days in leadership training 2. Provide a week for women leadership training in skills building, mentoring and advocacy 3. Conduct weekly leadership meeting for younger girls in their communities through theatre 4. Produce & multiply 25 training manual for participants in workshop 5. Provide a series of basic leadership skills & life skills training, leading to selfsufficiency into workshop 6. Create one girl club into community defending legal right of girls and women 7. Share and broadcast project visibility into the community and on media 8..Post the project results on social network; Google + to reach a large public number 9.. Produce a final report relating the results of the project

3 V. EXPECTED OUTPUT 1. Women and girls are weekly informed about their legal rights issues, health, and child wedding consequences into the girl's club defending their rights 2. Documents are produced on textbooks law, leaflets or training manual for public awareness. 3. Results of the dissemination workshops posted on social networks (Facebook, twitter) and into community trough conferences, broadcasting in Medias 4. The participating girls to develop leadership skills workshop to denounce violations of their rights and become club member s girls thus created. 5. Informed Local Communities are on the issues of girl's right and women, reproductive sexual health 6.An advocacy paper produced on the girl's right 7. At least 100 women and girls attending Girls Clubs participate weekly in discussion forum to report abuses against them V. IMONITORING INDICATORS 1. Number of girls participating in the workshop acquire life skills struggle against violations of their rights. 2. Rate of girls and women attending the club girls a week 3. Quality of the themes developed during the workshop on women's rights 4 Number of cases documented violations and denounced during advocacy sessions 5. Percentage of people affected by the activities of the workshop via the conference, radio broadcast.

4 VI. PROJECT BUDGET IN USD ITEM BEAKDOWN/ DESCRIPTION AMOUNT USD IN KIND Media Registration school fees marker Training room Dissemination of the workshop activities on 2 local media: USD 30 each Pay school fees for 1 girl attending secondary school for 10 months : USD 2O each 1 box of markers for the training workshop didactic support ; $ 5,18 3 days for rental room s training workshop of women in leadership : $ 50 each Training manual 25 training manual for participants : $ 7 each 175 advocacy document Honoraria for training teacher Fees for an advocacy document based on the recommendations of the workshop by a female lawyer: USD 150 Payment of the human rights expert for 3 days of the workshop: USD 45 each Training visibility 1 banner to display training workshop s activity : $40 40 Conference debate organizing a debate conference following the workshop to share recommendations into community: USD Girl s club 1 girl s club support material for reading : $300 each 300 Office supply 2 ream A4 papers for various needs of the project: $ each O7 Report 1 project completion report : $ Banking charges 2 % for bank fees on grant wired : Total Total cost of the workshop project : USD 1400

5 BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS Bank Name: I&M BANK Ltd ( Rwanda) Account Name: PEUPLES SANS VOIX Account Number: /USD Swift Code: BCRW RW RW