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In Liberia, Spotlight Initiative has supported over 225,562 Liberian women and girls to access a wide range of services in health, justice, protection, psychosocial and economic support.


“We are now focusing on the agriculture and business activities the EU and UN helped us to establish. I have practiced FGM for most of my life but now I advocate for girls to get an education unhindered and make their own choice of whether to undergo the initiation after they are 18 years old. I am happy that I still get to teach our good traditions to our girls and young women without causing any harm in…

In Liberia, community awareness raising of VAWG and prevention activities have contributed to increased justice for survivors and strengthened institutions through gender-aware policies and stronger referral networks.

In 2020, Spotlight Initiative and partners supported community and national radio to share messaging that challenged negative social and gender norms that lead to VAWG, shared health guidelines related to COVID-19 and information about service referral pathways. These messages reached 23,425 community members, including traditional, religious and community leaders, and were…

In 2020, the Spotlight Initiative programme in Malawi received reports that many survivors from the rural communities in which they worked were unable to access justice and essential services because they lived long distances from these services and couldn’t afford the cost of public transport. In response, Spotlight Initiative developed funds to help survivors overcome these economic barriers. They worked with traditional authorities to establish community committees which oversaw the distribution of these funds.

These committees sat within the Ministry of Gender, Social Welfare and…