Empowered for Change (E4C) is a one-year Pilot program (E4C) being implemented in Luwero district among two sub-counties namely Butuntumula and Luwero sub-county by PHAU, in Busia by CYRSRA and LVCT in Kenya. The project is aimed at to reducing HIV incidence among Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) and Gender Based Violence (GBV).

The project is piloting an innovative model of intensive, remunerated advocacy training and mentoring of a small cohort targeting young women, to empower them to advocate on key issues including access to HIV services, impunity for gender-based violence (GBV) and comprehensive sexuality education.

The project targets decision makers to meaningfully engage with adolescent girls and young women most affected by HIV on issues concerning their access to HIV, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender-based violence (GBV) services and information, and actively address their concerns in all relevant decisions, laws and policies.

This is done through community and nationally dialogues with stakeholders and decision makers, conducting GBV campaigns, Capacity building of advocacy champions, documenting of evidence-based advocacy GBV cases.

The project recruited, trained and engages 8 advocacy champions who conduct door to door sensitization, identifying and following up on community GBV cases as well as participating in all community and national dialogues. The project is supported by Frontline AIDS.