The Women's Legal Resources Centre (WOLREC)
WOLREC's primary focus is on ensuring women and girls have access to legal, social, and economic justice.
The Pamodzi Kuthetsa Nkhanza (PKN) programme is implemented by a consortium of Malawian women’s rights organisations – Women’s Legal Resource Center (WOLREC), Girls’ Empowerment Network (GENET), and Human Rights of Women and Girls with Disabilities (WAG-Disability Rights) – funded through the Scale window of What Works to Prevent Violence: Impact at Scale (What Works II). PKN is a holistic programme, involving both violence prevention and response components, including:
Prevention:
SASA! Together, a community mobilisation approach to shift the norms and attitudes in the community that drive violence against women and girls (VAWG).
Moyo Olemekezeka (MO), a social and economic empowerment initiative for households.
Response:
A Survivor Support Fund, to provide financial, emotional, and practical support to enable survivors of violence to access needed services.
Gender transformative curriculum, to improve knowledge, attitudes, and skills of service providers and enable them to deliver more survivor-centered services.
National Influencing:
A technical advisor embedded within the Malawian Police Service.
Engagement with national-level policy makers and stakeholders in Malawi to encourage prioritisation of VAWG.
Learn about our Grantees
Our grants include Innovation and Scale grants across a number of focus areas. In our first funding round, eleven grants have been awarded.