Gollobé is an association of young girl leaders in Torodi, created in March 2018. The CBO was founded as an offshoot of the NGO Cercle Dev (another Voice partner) in order to develop a community approach to enable girls’ participation in decision-making activities.

Thus far the young association has organised several awareness-raising activities for young people on issues of peace, drug use and citizenship. In addition, they have raised awareness on the education of the girl child, the retention of the girl in school, forced marriage and law suits which are the reasons put forward by many parents to end their children’s education.

As citizens’ action, they held several sanitation sessions in the town hall, the prefecture and the health centre. There is a zero plastic campaign in the city of Torodi. An initiative that mobilised a large part of the population and especially the association of young people who were not interested in protecting the environment before.

The project Gollobé-Empowerment of young women in Torodi aims at the empowerment of girls and young women in 3 villages in Torodi, for a total of 300 direct participants.

Four main activities are implemented :

• Advocacy at the communal level to promote access to land for girls and women in Torodi.
• Awareness-raising caravan on school enrollment and retention of Torodi girls and women in school.
• Fair hearing to enable 300 girls and women to have access to civil status documents for birth certificates.
• Grouping of girls and women into associations to participate in activities to raise awareness and protect women’s rights.

The project encourages the participation of women in the development and empowerment of girls and women in Torodi. The actions of the young girl leaders of Torodi will give a voice to women who are victims of discrimination in terms of land management and sharing. The women leaders of the department are helping to launch advocacy at the level of the communal authorities.