160 Girls Police Enablement Project

The equality effect’s 160 Girls project addresses the issue of child rape by creating systemic change using the law. The equality effect uses the law to ensure that the police enforce child rapes laws already on the books, so as to end impunity for child rape, and reduce rape and its harmful health impacts. Two thirds of girls in Kenya are sexually assaulted before they reach 18. By reducing the incidence of rape through the elimination of impunity, the harmful health impacts of rape will be reduced. The equality effect’s 160 Girls Police Enablement project aims to achieve the enforcement of the Kenya High Court’s landmark 160 Girls decision, to achieve perpetrator accountability and access to justice for child rape victims, eliminate impunity for child rape, and ensure the protection of girls’ equality rights so that they are safe from the violence of rape. Supplemental COVID-19 funding will support digitization of curriculum and an e-learning platform for Virtual Justice Clubs- a remote version of school-based programming which provides education on laws and rights related to sexual- and gender-based violence. It will also support community outreach via publication and circulation of Justice Clubs' "160 Girls Gazette" bi-weekly newspaper.