Digital citizenship and girls’ gender empowerment

本项目在印度尼西亚开展青年参与行动研究，调查女青年倡导社会变革所使用的数字化工具、资源和战略。发展组织使用的现有战略依赖于传统的自上而下的宣传方法，忽视了发展中国家的女孩和年轻妇女利用数字技术相互传授性别暴力和赋权的创新方式。预期成果包括以青年为中心的数字战略和可公开获取的资源。该项目的研究结果将用于改进赋予妇女权力方案的设计，这些方案可以扩大规模，以加强澳大利亚政府的援助分配。

Employing youth participatory action research in Indonesia, this project investigates the digital tools, resources, and strategies used by female youth to advocate for social change. The existing strategies used by development organisations rely on traditional, top-down advocacy approaches, overlooking the innovative ways girls and young women in developing countries use digital technologies to teach one another about gender-based violence and empowerment. Expected outcomes include youth-centred digital strategies and publicly accessible resources. The project's findings will be used to improve the design of gender empowerment programs that can be scaled up to enhance the Australian government’s aid distribution.