The first step in a girl’s Global Girl Project journey is the Global Girl Leadership Initiative, a three-month leadership and social change programme.
“After this programme I think I can achieve anything that I want to. Being a girl, it’s our responsibility to make our society a better place to live.”
The first step on a lifelong journey
Global Girl Project provides girls with a lifelong community that supports them as leaders and changemakers.
Girls begin their journey through the Global Girl Leadership Initiative (GGLI), a three-month facilitated programme delivered in local languages by trained local facilitators. Through the programme, girls build confidence in their voices and leadership, explore social issues affecting their communities, develop foundational project design skills, and plan and deliver their own community event.
How does it work?
Over 11 weekly sessions delivered across three months, girls participate in a bespoke leadership curriculum that helps them develop their confidence, strengthen their voices, and explore different models of leadership from around the world. They also gain practical skills in project design, planning, and community action.
Through interactive activities and discussions, girls learn about their power as leaders, discover how young women around the world are creating change, and develop the tools and confidence to make a difference in their own communities.
Upon graduating from the programme, each participant receives a grant towards their continuing education, such as school fees, and becomes part of our global changemaking network, Global Graduates Connect (GGC).
Our programme facilitators
We partner with local organisations and schools across the Global Majority that work with marginalised girls aged 13 to 18.
Facilitators from our partner organisations, including graduates of the Global Girl Leadership Initiative (GGLI), are trained to deliver the programme through our online learning platform. Through this platform, facilitators access the curriculum and supporting materials, which they then deliver in person to groups of up to 20 girls in each location.
“The [GGLI] is not just a programme to teach the girls how to be a leader or do a community event - it’s also a family, because they have found a way to have hope, they have found a way where they can feel good and confident as a girl, they can learn how to make change, and they know they have the power.
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