Centre for Girls & Interaction (CEGI) is a non-profit making organization, primarily concerned with creating access to information on girls and young women rights or related issues through interaction, advocacy, documentation, education, networking for positive change. GOAL
Our vision is to have a healthy, productive and aesthetic environment where men and women have a sense of belonging, with
equitable and adequate distribution of resources. VALUES
CEGI operations are guided by the following values:
Focus on the needy
Promote people-centered development
Tolerance; Acceptance and respect for different opnions, equity, equality, ethnicity, beliefs, s*x, race, social/health status and physical appearance.
Integrity; Delivering and acting according to expectations and requirements in a transparent, accountable, honest, just, fair and responsible manner.
Solidarity; Standing together, championing for a common cause, where mutual trust and commitment are adhered. AREAS OF INTEREST
- HIV/AIDS, Health and S*xual Reproductive Health Rights
- Gender Based Violence and Ending Early child Marriages
- Women Rights and Girl child trafficking
- Hunger and food security
- Water and Sanitation
- Climate change and environmental
- Youth governance and accountability
OBJECTIVE
- To improve gender equality and equity through advocacy and lobbying and promote human trafficking awareness and sensitization
- Build capacity in empowering communities towards achieving their full and active participation in development activities
- Increase involvement and participation of the grassroots in policy making and implementation
- To provide information channels for the enhancement of awareness of women's rights, and services available to communities (reproductive health, education, and training).
- To promote and advocating for clean water and hygiene education in schools
- To empower local communities and women in particular to self sufficiency using integrated approaches to income generation that contribute to poverty reduction.
- To build relationships and collaborate on projects that promotes and disseminates the important voices of young women and girls.
- To promote awareness on natural resources management, climate change mitigation and adaptation
OUR TARGET POPULATION
- CEGI particularly targets the vulnerable, marginalized and underserved rural and semi-urban Malawian communities with special focus on young women, girls, children and Youth at large. We work with Secondary School, Colleges, Universities, community and hard to reach young people 10 to 30 yrs in rural areas
STRATEGY
- Sustainable girls initiatives for development through education, health, rights based and rights
SYSTEMS IN PLACE
Training and Planning
Financial monitoring
Monitoring and evaluation system for projects
Transparency in management through Credibility Alliance norms
AREAS THAT NEED DEVELOPMENT
- Capacity building
- Lack of funds for outreaches program in schools and communities areas
- Inadequate capacity training programmes for girls and young women educators (trainers at local level) to effectively implement various programmes.
- Lack of funding for planned programs and activities
- Inadequate administrative support
- Misconception of gender (meaning up liftment of both men and women)
- Lack of external support to support the underserved vulnerable and needy girls. ACHIEVEMENT
- Participated and trained on how to set up a hotlines for SRHR and GBV
- Trained as advocate for S*xual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR)
- Establishment of 14 girls clubs and 4 s*x workers groups
- Conduction of community mobilization on climate change
- Establishment of a page for Lets Talk about Reproductive Health
- Conduction of safe abortion workshop on use of Misoprostral Pills
- Conduction of Climate change primary school field trip
- Participation in 16 days of activism
- HIV/AIDS open day interaction
- Conduction of environmental protection and awareness in schools and communities
- Participated in 5th African S*xuality and education conference
FUTURE PLANS
- To establish counseling centre for victimized girls and young women
- To establish hotline
- Engage in intense resource mobilization
- To carry out various activities on rights of the women, s*x workers and girls
- To establish and strengthen school clubs on water and sanitation and hygiene campaign
- To be the leading organization in psychosocial support vulnerable and victimized children, girls and young women
- To provide educational materials along with uniforms for vulnerable and needy girls
- To carry out community sensitization programs regularly
- Promote the development and implementation of appropriate national legal and policy framework that will provide adequate protection for the women and girl child and the protection and fulfillment of socio-economic and political rights including gender equity and equality which influence vulnerability to hindrance in development activities
PARTNERS AND DONORS
-Women on Web Foundation (WoW)
-Peace Child Internation
-Ipas Malawi
-Hivos
-Alert Fund for Youth
-Centre for Children & Youth Affiars (CEYCA)
NETWORK
-Coalition on Prevention of Unsafe Abortion (COPUA)
-Global Women Network for Reproductive Rights (GWNRR)
-National Youth Network on Climate Change (NYNCC)
-Northern Youth Network (NYN)
-International Consortium for Medical Abortion (ICMA)
-S*x Workers Alliance Malawi (SWA)
