From Marginalisation to Self-Agency
Soar Your Way – Rights-Based Teen Girl Empowerment Platform
📍 Location: Syria (3 regions) · Partnership anchored in Morocco
🗓 Duration: 15 months
🟢 Status: Large Project – Platform Pilot
🎯 Focus Areas: Girls’ rights · Feminist leadership · Civil society capacity · Youth empowerment · Advocacy platforms
💰 Funder: Civil Society Fund (CISU)
About the project
Soar Your Way strengthens Syrian civil society organisations to deliver rights-based teen girl empowerment using a digital, locally adaptable platform—building agency, leadership, and advocacy capacity for girls and the organisations that support them.
At a Glance
Soar Your Way pilots the SYW Platform, an innovative digital implementation model based on Project Soar’s award-winning 25-workshop empowerment curriculum.
The project strengthens three local Syrian CSOs to design and implement context-specific teen girl empowerment programmes—while simultaneously empowering 75 marginalised teen girls and laying the foundation for a scalable, Syrian-owned girls’ rights ecosystem.
The Challenge
Following over a decade of conflict—and a dramatic political transition in late 2024—Syrian society faces a fragile rebuilding process.
Teen girls are among the most affected:
Harmful gender norms restrict rights, mobility, and education
High prevalence of child marriage and gender-based violence
Limited access to sexual and reproductive health information
Triple discrimination for disabled girls and camp returnees
While many CSOs work with vulnerable communities, few have tailored tools or capacity to deliver structured, rights-based programming specifically for teen girls—at a moment when civil society’s role is more critical than ever.
Our partnership role
Civil Connections Community Foundation (CCCF) works in partnership with Project Soar as a co-creator, mentor, and coordinating lead.
Together, we:
Strengthen Syrian CSOs’ organisational and programmatic capacity
Pilot and refine a scalable empowerment platform
Ensure donor compliance, learning, and documentation
Bridge grassroots feminist practice with regional and international networks
What we intentionally do not do:
Implement programming directly in Syria
Replace local leadership or decision-making
Impose uniform program models
Expected outcomes
By the end of the project:
3 Syrian CSOs report significantly increased capacity to implement girls’ rights programming
75 teen girls demonstrate increased self-knowledge, confidence, and resilience
6 grassroots women facilitators trained and active
A validated SYW Platform ready for scale across Syria
A seed network for a national feminist community of practice
The deeper shift: girls move from silence to self-defined futures.
Our working hypotheses
Digital platforms can unlock access in fragile contexts—if locally owned
CSO capacity is as important as beneficiary outcomes
Feminist leadership grows through trust, not speed
Adaptability is essential for sustainability in volatile settings
What we hope to follow this project
Soar Your Way is designed as a foundation, not a one-off intervention.
Next steps include:
Scaling the SYW Platform across Syria
Expanding the girls’ rights community of practice
Adapting the model to other fragile contexts
Integrating learning into regional feminist advocacy
The long-term ambition: Syrian girls shaping Syrian futures.
Alignment with Civil Connections’ Theory of Change
This project contributes by:
Strengthening local civil society capacity
Translating lived experience into collective empowerment
Supporting locally owned, feminist systems change
Bridging grassroots action with scalable platforms
It reflects CCCF’s belief that sustainable change happens when those most affected lead—equipped, connected, and trusted.