Notes to Nono 7: ‘Give girls all over the world the ability to negotiate for themselves!’ with Jessica Posner-Odede, CEO of Girl Effect

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So conversations like the one I had with Jessica Posner-Odede are actually the reason that we came up with the Episode format of ‘Notes to Nono’ brought to you every Monday. It really opened my eyes to how inequitable our world is today for young women and girls all over the world. Jessica is the CEO of Girl Effect, an organisation that uses the power of media to unlock the power of girls. This organisation genuinely tries to help girls and puts them in the very center of the process to resolve a problem. And by problem I do not only mean the big, atrocious things such as girls not being allowed to go to school or being taken out of school because they are forced to marry at age 11. I am also referring to far more subtle things like how a lot of our technology is far more male focused than it is female focused or that a lot of provided health services out there claiming to help young women & girls are actually not working because they are not communicating or understanding the real problems at hand. Jessica does a far better job in explaining these problems summarised here in Notes to Nono but also in Episode 31 of Season 2. Have a listen and spread the word if you can so all girls will have the ability to negotiate for themselves everywhere in this world.