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Legal knowledge. Legal agency. Protected futures.

Know the law that shapes your life, business and future.

She Knows The Law equips women with practical legal knowledge, readiness tools and pathways to support — helping women make informed decisions, protect what they build and participate economically on stronger legal foundations.

She Knows The Law - Empowering women with legal agency and protected futures
WHY SHE KNOWS THE LAW

"The law should not only become relevant when something has gone wrong. Women should know it before they need it."

Women are gaining access to opportunities, assets, businesses and leadership, but legal readiness is too often missing from the empowerment conversation.

Opportunity is not enough. Women must be equipped to understand, negotiate, protect and retain the value of the opportunities they access.

Empowered African Woman in business and law
Empowering Women Founders & Leaders — Protecting value from foundation to legacy.

Personal Legal Foundations & Business Reality

A woman’s personal legal position directly affects her business, her wealth and her economic participation.

Life Transitions & Ownership Stakes

Marriage can affect ownership. Divorce can affect business interests. Personal indebtedness can constrain economic decisions.

Continuity & Generational Wealth

Death or incapacity can destabilise a founder-led business. Intentional estate planning protects and transfers economic value.

OUR MODEL

Six interconnected pillars

One model, six connected areas of work. Each pillar leads into the programmes, resources and pathways that sit beneath it.

01

Personal Legal Empowerment

Equip women and girls with practical legal knowledge, tools and pathways to support across everyday life.

Know your rights. Understand your options. Protect yourself, your family, your assets and your future.
02

Economic Legal Empowerment

Strengthen the legal foundations on which women access funding, build businesses, enter markets, employ people and participate in industry.

Legal readiness is business readiness.
03

Wealth, Estate & Legacy Protection

Help women understand ownership, protect assets, plan for incapacity and death, preserve business continuity and transfer wealth intentionally.

Understand what you own. Protect what you build.
04

Access to Justice & Legal Navigation

Help women identify legal issues, understand available pathways, prepare for appropriate next steps and connect with suitable legal, institutional or support services.

Not every problem needs an attorney. Every problem needs the correct pathway.
05

She Knows The Law: Legal Network

Create a professional ecosystem through which women legal professionals contribute expertise to women’s legal empowerment while gaining visibility, mentorship, collaboration, leadership, professional-development and impact opportunities.

Women in law empowering women through law.
06

Research, Advocacy & Public Legal Education

Generate and distribute credible knowledge on legal issues affecting women, improve public access to practical legal information and use evidence to identify systemic barriers.

Evidence should shape how law is taught, used and reformed.
FLAGSHIP PROGRAMMES

Where our work is concentrated now

These are the immediate priorities as SKTL institutionalises its 2026–2030 strategy.

Economic Legal Empowerment Priority Programme

She Knows The Law: Business Legal Ready

A legal-readiness programme for women-owned businesses across structure, governance, contracts, people, intellectual property, compliance, risk and continuity.

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Wealth, Estate & Legacy Protection Priority Programme

She Knows The Law: My Legacy

Understanding ownership, documenting assets, planning for incapacity and death, and transferring value intentionally.

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Personal Legal Empowerment Priority Programme

She Knows The Law: Women at Work

Practical employment legal knowledge for women in the workplace: contracts, pay, leave, unfair treatment, harassment and dispute pathways.

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Access to Justice & Legal Navigation Priority Programme

She Knows The Law: Where Do I Go?

A navigation programme that helps women identify the legal issue, prepare properly and find the correct court, institution, office or professional.

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Research, Advocacy & Public Legal Education Priority Programme

She Knows The Law: Explained

Short, plain-language explanations of the legal concepts, documents and processes women encounter most often.

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LEGAL AGENCY

What legal empowerment actually looks like

Legal agency is the outcome SKTL works towards: a woman who recognises when law matters and knows what to do next.

STAGE 01
She Knows
STAGE 02
She Understands
STAGE 03
She Is Ready
STAGE 04
She Acts
STAGE 05
She Navigates
STAGE 06
She Protects & Progresses
How we measure impact →
FOR INSTITUTIONS

You create the opportunity. We help ensure women are legally equipped to participate in it.

Empowerment initiatives succeed when participants have the legal literacy and compliance readiness to sustain growth, protect equity, and enter formal contracts.

Banks
DFIs and women’s funds
Corporates
ESD / supplier development
Government
Universities
Employers
Women’s organisations
Foundations
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PROGRAMME DELIVERY LEVELS
Session
Workshop
Readiness Intervention
Programme
Embedded Partner

SKTL can deliver a single session or operate as the embedded legal-empowerment layer inside a larger women-focused programme.

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Build legal empowerment into the opportunities you create for women.

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