Southern Africa Regional Representative – MenEngage Malawi Youth

Prudence Chavula is a Gender and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) specialist from Malawi. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Malawi. Whilst in college, she served in the students’ union as the Director of Women Affairs. Her role entailed ensuring that there is a conducive environment for female students and handling gender-based violence cases. Prudence serves as the Board Director and Chairperson of the Programs Sub-committee for the National Youth Council of Malawi. She currently works as the Executive Director for a grassroots feminist organization called Go Fund A Girl Child. The organization was established in 2015 by a group of adolescent girls and young women who survived various forms of gender-based violence. Its main aim is to advocate for the creation of an enabling environment for rural and peri-urban adolescent girls and young women to become powerful agents of change for the socio-economic development of the Malawian society. The organization has and is implementing interventions with technical and financial support from partners such as; the Icelandic government, UN Women, UNFPA and Ipas. Prudence is guided by the principle of empowering the voiceless to speak out for themselves as such she champions creation of safe spaces for vulnerable girls and young women in order to create a cadre of AGYW, empowered to challenge harmful practices. At the centre of her advocacy work is the mobilization and capacity building of resilient local stakeholders and community-based change agents that are actively responsible and accountable for the protection and safeguarding of girls and Women’s rights.