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WELCOME TO CANADA’S GREATEST INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT ON GIRL CHILD EMPOWERMENT 2024.

The Amara Girls Initiative (TAGI) is set to deliver its 1st two days annual global summit on Girl Child Empowerment March 23rd – 24th 2024, in Toronto, Canada at George brown College Conference Center.

The event is centered on enabling free speech for the Girl child, Unique learning, and Networking. We shall have mentors, scholars, women and men in leadership, policy makers, and women Activists share the latest practices in engaging and empowering a girl child with the support of partners, delegates, and colleagues from across the globe in a professionally and culturally safe diverse environment.

What to anticipate from TAGI Girl Empowerment Summit 2024?

The Conference will be filled with interactive workshops, Collaboration workshops with young adults and youth from across the globe, Information tables, Brake out-rooms, one on one with mentors and social workers, Girls telling their stories, Men holding the flag of gender accountability speeches, living life with intention speeches from successful women and men, Role-play games on overcoming limiting beliefs, embracing feminine energy, resilience exercises, Continental breakfast, Heart health lunch, Snacks and many other topics designed for Girl Empowerment.

TAGI believes in the purposeful personal experiences, open discussions, Men led  networks for gender equality , diversity of thoughts, cultures and beliefs for it’s the networking and the global connections that help us grow, Expand and evolve not only in fighting our barriers and obstacles to social justice but to an empowered world of a Girl Child.

 

Whether you are looking for a safe and freespace to:

 

• Network: Meet with global partners, women leaders, youth, girls, making new friends and finding solutions to your wonder questions,
• Relate: From the different speakers, leaders, event activities and borrow knowledge to plant seeds in your respective places and spaces or.
• Discover: Present and share experiences, raise awareness on empowerment and accept feedback from the international delegates
• Be empowered: This is not a feel-good event it’s an investment in the girl child life and future to foster quality education and gender equality.

 

We can’t wait to have you in Toronto in March 2024.

With more than 400 delegates expected to attend from all over the world and all walks of life, our focus group and partners will in addition have a plan to have a voice to.

1. Create a free and safe space for girls, the youth, and women freely express themselves.
2. Identify issues affecting girls, the youth,and women in areas of quality education and gender equality.
3. Address the effects of covid which include school dropouts, young mothers, violence, and socialization.
4. Strategize on a solutions-based approach that can be used to address the highlighted challenges.
5. Resolve to close the gender inequality challenges and their resultant problems.
6. Support the education aspirations of girls, young adults, the youth, and women.
7. Resolve to keep the girls, young adults, and the youth in school.

Without heightened commitment from the international global community, Gender equality, quality education for girls, young adults, the youth, and women will remain nothing more than an unrealized goal. TAGI refuses to continue this embarrassing state of affairs and is therefore joining other partners to act by investing in women and girls, now.

The data.

In the UN Women report of August 2022, it was reported that if we continue moving at the current pace, we are on in addressing women issues, it will take us 286 years to reform legal frameworks to promote, enforce and monitor gender equality in public life. Therefore, let us join hands to address the basics of living for the girl child today.

The picture is grimier because according to estimates published by Word Health Organization and cited by the World Bank Gender data portal and the UN Women reports, indicates that about 1 in 3 (30%) of women and girls worldwide aged 15 and older have been subjected to either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. Most of this violence is by intimate partners, relatives, and close people to them. To put this in context, this is nearly 736 million women and girls around the world.

A call to action.

TAGI is also joining efforts with other global partners in the bid to end child marriages by 2030. To do this, progress must be 17 times faster than it was over the last decade. TAGI is enabling free speech amongst the marginalized groups, providing support on challenges that lead to school drop-out of girls, engaging parents on forcing children marriages to get dowry, education of leaders and communities on the values of an educated girl in their communities, engaging the boy child on how to treat girls with respect and equally.

By the end of this summit, we hope to have done the following.

1. Held consultations with girls to determine their unique needs and vulnerabilities to inform our interventions.
2. Identify their specific interests and skills that will meet their goals.

• Place girls, young adults, the youth, and women at the center of all our support activities

1. Allow free space for feedback and offer solution-oriented speeches that address the issues.
2. Support girls, youth, and women leadership development by engaging them in organizational leadership as peer educators.
3. Allow girls to suggest solutions and strategies that address their issues.

Next steps

We are of the firm belief that the summit will spur discussion on solutions to the highlighted challenges. In particular, we shall resolve to do the following.

1. Hold frequent participatory and culturally- appropriate consultations with stakeholders to improve social attitudes on gender-responsive education especially for the girls.
2. Engage the boy child in activities that will enhance equitable and inclusive learning for the girl child.

Cost of violence and inequality

According to a Commonwealth secretariate study, the economic cost of violence against girls and women is very high and a sample from selected countries shows the cost expressed as a percentage of GDP as follows.

• Canada—USD $7.3 Billion—0.47%
• USA– USD $273.4 Billion—1.51%
• U – USD $352 Billion —1.9%
• Uganda—USD $0.3 Billion—0.35%
• Tanzania –USD $0.3Billion –1.22%

According to the Organization for Economic Development, Gender inequality and discrimination costs the world economies USD $ 6 trillion.