DEVEX WORLD IS
COMMITED TO INCLUSION.
Devex World brings together the best minds to tackle the biggest challenges facing our world. This year it has been our priority to include more voices from the global south in these important conversations. In order to accomplish this goal, Devex has partnered with Global Fund for Women to bring a select group of their fellows to Washington, D.C. to participate in Devex World 2018. These fellows will enrich the conversation through enhancing the diversity of perspectives and organizations represented.
Global Fund for Women Fellows
Meet the Adolescent Girls Advisory Council members
Global Fund for Women funds bold, ambitious, and expansive gender justice movements to create meaningful change that will last beyond our lifetimes. Over the course of 30+ years, Global Fund for Women has supported feminist movements and grassroots organizers to end civil wars, get female Presidents elected, and secure laws giving new protection to millions. Today, building on historic wins and the latest research, we are doubling down on supporting movements. For more information on the Global Fund for Women’s Adolescent Girls Advisory Council visit their website.
Agimaa
Agimaa lives in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She believes that providing girls with the tools to take control of their own lives is the most crucial step to achieving gender equality. For girls, speaking up and acting on their own discriminations and injustices is and will be the instrument that empowers them.
Agimaa
Aweqawe
Aweqawe lives in South Africa. Her vision is to see and have every girl child in school, with access to all basic necessities like sanitary wear, and in complete control over their lives.
Aweqawe
Besma
Besma is from Algeria. Her vision for the world’s girls is finding every young female being her own hero and proud of herself, and improving how girls and women are able to shine and reach their dreams and purposes against taboos.
Besma
Giovanna
Giovanna is a Brazilian gender activist that believes girls are a constellation of infinite possibilities. She is an author and a young leader, part of Restless Development’s Youth Power Panel and key member of the campaign #CadêMeuAbsorvente (Where is my pad) that got the Brazilian government to approve a bill that distributes free menstrual products to girls in public schools. She is currently pursuing a degree at Minerva University and traveling the world.
Giovanna
Jennifer Gatheca
Jennifer is from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Her vision for the world's girls is one where they are not afraid to be who they are; they are free and can speak up for themselves without having to be ignored. And one where simply being a girl is not looked to as a crime — overwhelmed with rules and restrictions.
Jennifer Gatheca
Liz Lum
Liz Lum lives in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She believes that providing girls with the tools to take control of their own lives is the most crucial step to achieving gender equality. For girls, speaking up and acting on their own discriminations and injustices is and will be the instrument that empowers them.
Liz Lum
Maria de la Cruz
Maria de la Cruz lives in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She believes that providing girls with the tools to take control of their own lives is the most crucial step to achieving gender equality. For girls, speaking up and acting on their own discriminations and injustices is and will be the instrument that empowers them.
Maria de la Cruz
Polina Vyzhak
Polina Vyzhak lives in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She believes that providing girls with the tools to take control of their own lives is the most crucial step to achieving gender equality. For girls, speaking up and acting on their own discriminations and injustices is and will be the instrument that empowers them.
Polina Vyzhak
Rajasi
Rajasi is from Bhaktapur, Nepal. She says: “Living in a society with heavy patriarchal culture has always raised a question within me, ‘Do I deserve this? Do women of my country deserve this?’ I want to live in a place where education is not related to someone’s gender or sexual identity, where religion does not become a part of social injustice, where inclusiveness is encouraged, where work is not related with someone’s gender but with skills.”
Rajasi
Yande Banda
Yande Banda lives in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She believes that providing girls with the tools to take control of their own lives is the most crucial step to achieving gender equality. For girls, speaking up and acting on their own discriminations and injustices is and will be the instrument that empowers them.
Yande Banda
Marwa Talash
Marwa Talash, 19, is from Helmand, Afghanistan. Her vision is to have a peaceful world, and to see all girls able to access their rights without struggle, including the right to education. She is an Afghan evacuee currently living in Albania and a member of the Global Fund for Women.
