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Empowering Next Generation - ENG
Empowering Next Generation (ENG) is committed to empowering the youth across Ethiopia through comprehensive support, helping them lead healthy, peaceful, productive, and compassionate lives. With a strong focus on health and well-being, peacebuilding, job creation, and environmental awareness, ENG fosters the new spirit of Africa. The organisation is dedicated to gender equality, with women in key leadership roles and a focus on women’s digital inclusion. ENG’s gender-sensitive projects and collaborations with women-led organisations contribute to building a more inclusive society where young women thrive and lead.
Extra Mile Development
Extra Mile Development (EMDEF) is a young women-led nonprofit in Malawi dedicated to empowering marginalized children, girls, and young women through education, health, and economic initiatives. We reduce barriers to quality education, improve WASH services in schools and communities, and promote sustainable farming for better livelihoods. Our health programs address SRHR, HIV/AIDS, mental health, and GBV awareness. Through our Menstrual Hygiene Management program, we’ve impacted over 4,000 girls, while our school readmission efforts have reintegrated 69 students. We also provide mentorship in STEM, bursaries, and economic opportunities for adolescent mothers and women to foster financial independence.
Marwo
Marwo is committed to amplifying women’s voices and fostering leadership to drive lasting societal change in Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State. The organisation empowers women in peacebuilding, humanitarian response, and development, ensuring they play a central role in creating inclusive and resilient communities. Marwo works to dismantle barriers, challenge harmful practices, and advocate for gender equality and social inclusion. Through its initiatives, the organisation envisions a world where women are equal partners in shaping peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable societies, creating opportunities for them to lead and thrive.
Positive Peace for Ethiopia
Positive Peace for Ethiopia (PPE) is dedicated to advancing the rights and opportunities of women and girls in Ethiopia. Through the EmpowerHer Program, PPE equips women entrepreneurs with essential skills in digital marketing, business development, and financial literacy, fostering economic independence. Workshops in peace and conflict resolution empower women as active agents of peace, incorporating traditional methods. The organisation also offers women’s safe space programs focused on cyber security, gender-based violence, and media literacy. These initiatives collectively contribute to uplifting women and girls, promoting peace, and supporting the creation of prosperous communities.
Link Education International
Presence: Ethiopia, Uganda, Malawi, Rwanda
Link Education International is dedicated to inspiring sustainable innovations in national education policy using grassroots approaches to improve accountability and learner outcomes. The organisation focuses on girls' education, support for other vulnerable groups, education system strengthening, community engagement, and climate change resilience. Over the past decade, Lin Education International has led two Girls' Education Challenge (GEC) programmes in Ethiopia and Malawi, positively impacting nearly 65,000 girls across 300 schools and community-based learning centres. Additionally, they have been a consortium partner on two GEC programmes in Uganda and Rwanda, supporting approximately 500 schools.
