Joshua Dilawar

Joshua Dilawar is the Founder of the Institute for Social and Youth Development, an online platform created to promote youth capacity building, social awareness and gender equality.  Drawing inspiration from his theatre background, Joshua has used art and digital campaigns to cultivate inter-faith peace dialogues and call for greater sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) education – empowering young women in particular to have agency over their own bodies. Joshua’s innovative methodologies are wide in scope with a unifying underlying theme of education in its many forms as a tool for peace and advancement of gender equality.  In recognition for his work on gender equality, SRHR and towards elimination of gender-based violence, Joshua was awarded with the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute’s Family Planning Leadership Award (2017), and further named one of Women Deliver’s Youth Leaders (2018).