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Bridges to the Future

City of São Paulo/Brazil

The 5-year project “Bridges to the Future” aims to empower young people, especially young women, so that they achieve social inclusion, live free from gender-based violence and pursue their life aspirations. The project considers the social context and economic inequalities in the city of São Paulo and aims to tackle social challenges such as adolescent pregnancy, early motherhood, and the lack of economic opportunities for young people, especially women, by focusing on south and west city zones, through the promotion of girls’ and communities' empowerment.

Guided by an intersectoral perspective, the project develops its activities through four objectives:

  1. Empowerment, Gender Norms and SRHR (cross-cutting)
  2. Education
  3. Economic Empowerment
  4. Enabling environment.

To ensure the project’s sustainability, reference material will be developed on the project's themes so that the young participants can sensitize their peers, as well as professionals from public education and health services, families and communities, and companies mobilized on the theme of youth inclusion in the job market.

In addition, the project’s young participants are involved from the beginning of the project, including the structuring of the methodology, and the diagnosis of the main barriers to young people's access to the labor market. They will also be involved in the development of a social technology platform to disseminate and scale up project's themes to other young people in the municipality of São Paulo and even in the Metropolitan Region and other Brazilian states.

 

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City
City of São Paulo/Brazil
Partner
Plan International
Goal
The overall goal of the project is that young people, especially young women, are empowered, achieve social inclusion, live free from gender-based violence and pursue their life plans.
Funding
2022 - 2027

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