Power to Girls commitments
Featured commitments
Mary Robinson
I support Power to Girls by committing empowering girls. We must address the issue of poverty and marginalisation, which lead to child marriage. We need to recognise that COVID has had a very real effect around the world of increasing the number of people in poverty and therefore increasing child marriage. Let's also work together to make sure girls in Afghanistan don’t get pushed into marriage and can stay in school
Main areas of work
- Education
- Health
- Human Rights & Justice
- Poverty
- Safety & Security
- Sustainability
I commit that I will work to empower girls and create an ecosystem of equality to empower their voices.
SIDA, Sweden
SIDA will support Power to Girls as a donor through investment in key sectors including education, health and SRHR and support for civil society organisations who work with children and young women to liberate the power they hold, and in line with the feminist foreign policy commitments of the government of Sweden we will advocate for an end to child marriage and policies that respect the right of girls’ and boys’ to decide over their own bodies and lives.
Faisal Khalil
I commit to ending child marriages by encouraging girls to acquire the skills and knowledge to develop new and creative behaviour change strategies that lead to healthier practices and lifelong good habits.
Wazir Zada
I commit to ending child marriages by supporting policy reform and number of practical measures to prevent and eliminate child and forced marriage and protect women and girls against its adverse impacts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Haider Ali
I commit to ending child marriages by partnering with young people to develop new and creative behaviour change strategies that lead to healthier practices and lifelong good habits.
Dr. Shakeel Ahmad
I commit to ending child marriages by encouraging girls to acquire the skills and knowledge to find employment and means to support their families which can help break the cycle of poverty and prevent child marriages that occur as a result of extreme poverty and/or financial gain.
Hooriya Nasir
I commit to ending child marriages by connecting girls with services and opportunities offered by government and non-government organisations which can help them build their careers and avoid child marriages.
Usman Afridi
Child marriages violate girls’ rights to health, education and opportunity. I commit to ending child marriages and supporting girls’ rights by community mobilization on girls’ rights to education and will make efforts to ensure that children-particularly girls – are involved in the process and empowered to claim their right.
Qamar Naseem
Girls who are married are unlikely to be in school. Going to school gives girls choices and opportunities in life, allowing them to play an active role in their communities and break the cycle of poverty. I commit to ending child marriages and supporting girls’ rights by community mobilization on girls’ rights to education.
Maqsood Ali
I commit to ending child marriages by bringing together researchers, programmers, policymakers, CSO experts, and religious leaders to reflect on the existing evidence base and implications for policy and programme design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation.
Ameer Mavia
I commit to ending child marriages by generating demand of strengthening health services to offer young people health care they need without judgement or bias.