Girls Connect Uganda (GCU) is a fully registered Non-governmental Organization founded in 2018 with aim to empower adolescent girls and young women to defend, protect and speak out on their rights to make informed life decisions and choices. GCU promotes adolescent girls and young women sexual reproductive health protection and rights including HIV&AIDS and family planning interventions. We engage key decision makers and community stakeholder groups to transform unequal gender power relations to end violence against women and girls. Through inclusive programming GCU targets all adolescent girls and young women in and out of school while engaging boys and men as champions of change in defending rights of adolescent girls and young women. GCU primary target include adolescent girls (10-19 years) and young women (19-35 years) in and out of school (inclusive disabled, refugees, child mothers, commercial sex workers, those living in slums and child brides, HIV&AIDS affected and infected). The secondary target consist of boys and men, parents /guardians, education stakeholders, traditional, cultural and religious leaders, government policy decision makers and relevant ministries.