Women Win is the leading global organisation that advances girls' and women's rights through sport. We believe that barriers preventing girls from playing sports reflect those that prevent them from actively participating in society as a whole. When girls have the opportunity to take part in sport, they discover new skills and abilities, gain confidence, learn about their rights, and build better lives for themselves, their families and their communities.
Girls and women comprise over 50 percent of the world's population, yet they own only 1 percent of the world's wealth and have only a 10 percent share in global income. Although there is a growing understanding that investment in girls and women has a significant and positive impact upon the alleviation of poverty, they still face tremendous barriers to safety, health and economic empowerment. Women Win uses sport as a platform to address those issues these issues in developing countries.
We use three integrated strategies to empower girls and young women to achieve their rights through sport. First, we STRENGTHEN grassroot organisations. We LEARN best practices of the most innovative organisations, and create open-sourced, wiki-style online guidelines and curricula from that knowledge to share with the global community of grassroot girls' sport programmes. We then CATALYZE on opportunities to raise awareness and build strategies to address issues facing girls and young women.
At the Clinton Global Initiative 2011 Women Win committed to reach 100,000 girls through the programmes that we support, and the online tools that we create by 2015. We believe that through effective sport programmes, we can empower girls to address gender-based violence, access sexual health and reproductive rights, and gain economic empowerment. In turn, girls will become strong leaders, and affect positive change in their own lives, their families and their communities as a whole.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
