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Announcing the 2025 Dignity Award winner

Announcing the 2025 Dignity Award winner

Founded in 2013, Autism Voice is a community-based organization in South London that supports Black and global-majority families facing unique challenges in accessing autism services. Recognizing that cultural differences, language barriers, and a lack of inclusive spaces meant that many autistic children and their families were not receiving the care they deserved, Autism Voice set out to ensure that families had access to autism services that reflected their lived experiences.

Esther Aoko

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A deep dive into community-led approaches: Lessons from our Africa team’s learning journey

A deep dive into community-led approaches: Lessons from our Africa team’s learning journey

Three members of Global Fund for Children’s Africa team recently attended the Tostan Advanced Seminar to deepen their knowledge of the community led approach (CLA). In this blog, they share their key learning and reflections from the seminar.



Amé Atsu David , Bundie Kabanze , Remijus N. Iweobi

Embracing community-led approaches: Lessons from Tostan and Community Life Competence Process (CLCP) approaches in Senegal and India

Embracing community-led approaches: Lessons from Tostan and Community Life Competence Process (CLCP) approaches in Senegal and India

As part of Global Fund for Children’s strategy to foster cross-regional collaboration and learning, the Africa team invited a colleague from the Asia team to join them at the recent Tostan Advanced Seminar. The opportunity was taken by Indrani Chakraborty, Regional Co-Director, South Asia, allowing her to deepen her knowledge of the Community Led Approach, while sharing learning and exchanging best practices with her colleagues.



Indrani Chakraborty

How community-led change is making a difference in the lives of the Bede community in Bangladesh

How community-led change is making a difference in the lives of the Bede community in Bangladesh

To bring growth and the promise of a brighter future to the Bede community – a minority group in Bangladesh living on boats – GFC’s youth-led partner Alokito Kori stepped in with education, financial, and social support, all through a community-led approach.



Mithun Das Kabbo (Alokito Kori), supported by Indrani Chakraborty (Global Fund for Children)

The power of partnership and shared purpose: an informal GFC-supported network in East Africa

The power of partnership and shared purpose: an informal GFC-supported network in East Africa

It all started as a casual conversation over lunch. The founders and leaders of four community-based organizations in East Africa had met in Uganda at a convening organized by Global Fund for Children. The convening was aimed at bringing community leaders to share knowledge, generate learning, fuel advocacy, and build movements for social change.



Bundie Kabanze (Global Fund for Children) & John Paul Nsanja (Implicit Effect Community Initiative)

Mensajes de incidencia para la Conferencia Ministerial Mundial para la Eliminación de la VAC, Bogotá 2024

Gender justice, Safety and wellbeing

Mensajes de incidencia para la Conferencia Ministerial Mundial para la Eliminación de la VAC, Bogotá 2024

Existen numerosas pruebas que demuestran la interrelación crucial entre la violencia de género (VG) y la violencia contra las niñas y los niños (VAC). Estas problemáticas están interconectadas y se refuerzan mutuamente, cruzándose con otras formas de opresión sistémica que afectan de manera desproporcionada a las poblaciones vulnerables, en particular a las mujeres, las niñas y las personas no conformes con el género de grupos marginados (ONU Mujeres, 2021; UNICEF, 2020).


Advocacy Messages for the VAC Ministerial Meeting, Bogota 2024

Gender justice, Safety and wellbeing

Advocacy Messages for the VAC Ministerial Meeting, Bogota 2024

A rich body of evidence demonstrates the critical interrelation between gender-based violence (GBV) and violence against children (VAC). These issues are interconnected and mutually reinforcing, and intersect with other forms of systemic oppression that disproportionately impact vulnerable populations, particularly women, girls, and gender nonconforming individuals from marginalized groups (UN Women, 2021; UNICEF, 2020).


International Day of the Girl Child: Celebrating Sierra Leone’s Landmark Ban on Child Marriage

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International Day of the Girl Child: Celebrating Sierra Leone’s Landmark Ban on Child Marriage

The International Day of the Girl Child is a powerful reminder to honor the tireless efforts of young advocates and organizations working to build a world where every girl can reach her full potential, free from discrimination, violence, and poverty. This Day, celebrated throughout the month of October calls us to celebrate the incredible milestones achieved on behalf of girls’ rights, well-being, and empowerment. One such achievement is Sierra Leone’s recent ban on child marriage, a landmark victory in the fight for girls' rights that protects countless young girls from early marriage and its lifelong consequences.



Amé Atsu David

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