The Girls’ Empowerment Through Sexual Exploitation Termination (GET SET) Project

Name: The Girls’ Empowerment Through Sexual Exploitation Termination (GET SET) Project
Duration: July 2007 – March 2009
Donor: Oak Foundation

GET SET seeks to empower girls through whose life circumstances put them at risk of sexual exploitation and abuse in their communities and school environment.

GET SET will build on a current project supported by the Nike Foundation that works to empower 500 girl students to continue and complete secondary schooling and to increase their leadership and life skills development entitled Girls' Empowerment and Management (GEM) Project, implemented in 15 secondary schools in three regions – Amhara, Gambella and SNNPR.

Pact seeks to increase resilience among adolescent girls through preventative and supportive mechanisms. The project will work with the current GEM beneficiaries, other girls in their schools, the wider community, and police, prosecutors, health and counselling personnel to raise awareness about sexual exploitation and abuse, strengthen institutional linkages, and establish mechanisms that address and prevent gender-based violence.

GET SET has four major objectives:

• Development of self-defense skills among secondary school girls and awareness raising on gender-based violence with the wider community
• Sensitization of law enforcement personnel on sexual exploitation, abuse and violence
• Establishment of psychological counseling/rehabilitation and medical referral and linkage systems for abused girls
• Investigation of factors that have led to resilience or despondency among girls in the project areas.

Staff contacts

	Leslie Mitchell Country Representative Addis Ababa, Ethiopia leslie@pactet.org
	Priscilla Ndlovu Program Officer Washington, D. C. USA pndlovu@pacthq.org