Gender education programme looks at how gender roles and norms (societal rules and expected gender behaviours, activities, expressions) shape different outcomes for different genders within different cultures. Internalised during childhood, gender roles and norms influence, often restrict, individual actions.

 Intersection of gender, race and sex 

Though race and gender are socially constructed concepts, without biological meaning, and while we can distinguish sex from gender and race in practice, we are always dealing with all the three. While race, gender and sex are often framed as distinctive and mutually exclusive avenues of power, in experiences of people of African descent, they overlap; creating complex intersections at which gender, race and sex meet. We look at how these intersections create compounded oppression for the youth and LGBTIQ+ youth of African descent and shape their educational, cultural, social, economic and health outcomes.

 Gender-based violence prevention  

Gender violence: a pervasive social, democracy, human rights problem deeply rooted in rigid gender norms and roles. Gender violence is present at all levels of society from family, private, public spaces to service offering where women and gender minorities are at-risk. We look at how this violence is perpetuated through discrimination and unequal power relationships of cis-men over cis-women and of both cis-men and cis-women over gender minorities. And how it manifests through harmful physical, sexual and psychological acts such as domestic violence; intimate partner violence; child marriage; trafficking; sexual exploitation, harassment and abuse; and forced, coerced or incapacitated rape.

 Sexual and menstrual health and rights 

We integrate literacy on sexual and menstrual health and rights, and on sexual and menstrual violence to address obstacles to sexual and menstrual health and rights among youth. This literacy draws attention to experiences of and social, economic, cultural barriers youth face while managing their sex life and periods. We address the intricate, yet lesser-explored dimension of sexual and menstrual violence that compromises the sexual, menstrual and mental health outcomes of adolescents and youth. As menstrual stigma and period poverty result in sexual coercion, exploitation and violence in the context of domestic, work, school and public life owing to entrenched gender roles and norms.