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The First Continental Summit for and by the Girls to Champion and Sustain Their Leadership in Decision-Making Spaces

Nairobi, Kenya, 11th August 2025– Africa, with its vibrant youth, including over 116 million under 35 in East Africa alone, is a continent of immense potential. Yet, the leadership of young people, especially Girls and Young Women (GYW), remains undervalued. Girls and Young Women are actively addressing global issues such as climate change, digital inequality,

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Nairobi, Kenya, 11th August 2025– Africa, with its vibrant youth, including over 116 million under 35 in East Africa alone, is a continent of immense potential. Yet, the leadership of young people, especially Girls and Young Women (GYW), remains undervalued. Girls and Young Women are actively addressing global issues such as climate change, digital inequality, gender-based violence, and economic injustice, but are often excluded from decision-making. Now is the time to change this.

As Africa nears the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) deadline, the need to protect progress and ensure Girls and Young Women are sufficiently integrated in decision-making processes has never been more urgent.

At this critical moment, the She Leads Africa Summit 2025 under the theme ¨Sustaining Girls and Young Women Leadership in Key Decision-Making Spaces in Africa¨ will take place from 11th to 14th August 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya. This historic event, organised by the Horn of Africa Youth Network (HoAYN) and Terre des Hommes Netherlands, in collaboration with Pan African She Leads Consortium partners, Plan International AULO, Defence for Children – ECPAT Netherlands (DCI-ECPAT), FEMNET, and GIMAC, marks the first-ever regional civil society-led summit convened for and by GYW across the continent.

Hosted in the Eastern Africa region, the Summit is both a powerful culmination of the five-year She Leads programme (2021–2025) and a bold step forward in shaping policies that place Girls and Young Women at the centre of decision-making.

As Linnet Awor, Technical Expert, Lobby and Advocacy at Terre des Hommes Netherlands, explains, ¨We need to ensure Girls and Young Women continue to lead with impact in all spheres of life, now and in the future. Through collaborative advocacy, the Summit will strengthen feminist and youth-led movements, encouraging regional commitments to ensure GYW are engaged meaningfully in governance and development.¨

By the end of the Summit, participants will have secured tangible policy commitments from regional and continental institutions to embed Girls’ and Young Women’s leadership across key decision-making spaces. The Summit will also strengthen intergenerational and cross-border feminist networks and produce a clear Pan-African roadmap for a just, inclusive, and gender-equal post-2030 agenda.

Ruth First (South Africa – historical)

Most Impactful Work: Her extensive coverage of anti-apartheid movements and her books like 117 Days.

Short Bio: A formidable anti-apartheid activist and journalist, Ruth First was a prominent figure in South African media during the 1940s and 1950s. She edited several progressive newspapers and her work consistently exposed the injustices of the apartheid system. She was assassinated by South African government forces in 1982.

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