Programme
Women and Children's Rights Programme
Advancing gender equality and ensuring that women, girls, boys and vulnerable children enjoy their legal rights and protection.
Programme overview
The challenge and our response
Women and children continue to experience disproportionate levels of violence, discrimination, exclusion, exploitation, and unequal access to justice. This programme seeks to advance gender equality while ensuring that women, girls, boys, and vulnerable children enjoy their legal rights and protection.
ILA provides comprehensive legal assistance, psychosocial referrals, advocacy, and community education aimed at preventing gender-based violence (GBV), child abuse, child marriage, trafficking, exploitation, and harmful traditional practices. The programme also promotes women's leadership and economic empowerment.
Working closely with government institutions, community leaders, schools, and development partners, ILA supports the creation of safe, inclusive, and protective environments for women and children.
Programme photography
Photographs from this programme will be published here once ILA supplies images cleared for public use.
What we deliver
Key Interventions
- Gender-based violence prevention and response
- Legal assistance for GBV survivors
- Child protection services
- Family law legal support
- Child custody and maintenance cases
- Women's legal empowerment
- Prevention of child marriage
- Prevention of trafficking in persons
- Sexual and reproductive rights awareness
- Women's leadership programmes
- Community awareness campaigns
- School legal awareness programmes
- Advocacy for gender-responsive laws
- Child rights advocacy
- Referral pathways for protection services
Programme results
What we measure
ILA reports against these indicators. Figures are published once verified for the reporting period they cover.
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People reached
Individuals reached through legal aid, legal awareness and community outreach activities.
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Legal consultations
Legal advice and counselling sessions provided to individuals seeking assistance.
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Cases handled
Legal aid cases opened and managed by ILA legal staff.
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Cases resolved
Cases concluded through representation, mediation or alternative dispute resolution.
Programme results, project records and publications for this programme will appear here as they are finalised and released.
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Work with ILA
Partner on Women & Children's Rights
ILA welcomes collaboration with institutions seeking to strengthen justice, rights and governance outcomes in South Sudan.