The AEU is committed to enabling the lifelong empowerment of girls.

Sustainable empowerment is not about giving solutions to girls and women but rather enabling them to have what it takes to live empowerment each day and to adjust to times and context without being victims of circumstances. It is about opportunities and choices.

The AEU Girls' Toolkit website is a space and resource for girls to grow up safe and empowered. An empowered girl who grows up to be an empowered woman is:

        Confident
         She has good self-esteem and can articulate her needs and interests and can negotiate the implementation of those needs. 

         Educated
         She has access to informal education through family and community, formal education through schools, non-formal education through clubs and organized community events, technology, media and information systems.

         Informed
         She is conscious of her formal and informal rights, including sexual and reproductive rights and has knowledge of where to get help. 

         In Charge
         She has self-determination and choices about her health, body, sexuality, sex life and knowledge of where to get help.

         Respected
         She has mobility, visibility and social presence and participates in informal support networks in her neighbourhood.