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CAMFED IMPACT REPORT
partners working across many disciplines and sectors
to address the complex problems that prevent girls
and young women from accessing the education and
opportunities that will transform their own lives and those
of their communities.
The community-based infrastructure that Camfed has built
in isolated poor communities provides an unprecedented
opportunity to build partnerships in areas such as
microfinance, technology access, health education and
care, hunger relief, and environmental sustainability to
benefit these communities and the region as a whole. It is
through such an integrated and innovative approach that
the boundaries of existing knowledge and practice can
be transcended, and pragmatic, economically viable, and
genuinely empowering responses to social, economic and
environmental challenges, can emerge.
With such reciprocal exchanges of knowledge and the
support of investors, Camfed plans to take forward the
following strategic priorities:
Goal 1: Fulfillment of the child’s right
to education and protection
Goal 2: Realization of young women’s potential
to catalyze social and economic change
Strategies
• Camfed will invest in the Cama membership as a pan-
African movement of young women as leaders of change.
• Camfed will open up new channels of resources, including
financial life skills and business training, to young women
entrepreneurs in Africa.
Goal 3: Dissemination of a new development
paradigm for greater accountability of service
providers to girls and their communities
Strategies
• Camfed will develop and disseminate a governance
blueprint based on the principle of entitlement and driven
by compliance to the girl in partnership with global law
film, Linklaters.
• Camfed will broker new partnerships between social
entrepreneurial organizations and rural communities to
secure integrated development solutions.
Strategies
• Camfed will continue to expand access to education for
the most vulnerable children.
• Camfed will engage with major players, including
governments and international agencies, to secure a
higher standard of child protection in education.
Camfed’s vision is of an Africa where poverty is no longer
a barrier to education for any child, and where education
opens the doors of health, prosperity and possibility to
all children. Camfed looks forward to contributing its
expertise and experience with partners who share this
vision. The greater the number and the higher the quality
of partnerships working towards the education of girls and
the empowerment of young women in Africa, the more
certain their success.
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