Apatseni Mwayi Atsikana Aphunzire (AMAA)

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I Inactive

Key Information

AMAA is a four-year project implemented in five districts across Malawi: Mzimba, Balaka, Machinga, Phalombe, and Chikwawa. The project targets over 60,000 girls in both upper primary and secondary schools. AMAA has four main outcomes: (1) to improve the ability of girls to affect change in self and others; (2) to enhance the creation of an enabling environment for girls’ adolescent development and education achievement; (3) to strengthen the quality of teaching; and (4) improve access to secondary schools. AMAA is delivering district-specific activities in Malawi to mitigate particular barriers to girls’ enrollment and retention in school. In the districts of Balaka and Machinga, the project will construct 11 Community Day Secondary Schools (CDSS) – 5 in Machinga and 6 in Balaka – and provide scholarships to vulnerable boys and girls in each new school. NORC’s evaluation and research of the AMAA program will be limited to the secondary school construction interventions implemented in these two districts and will focus on both girls and boys.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Malawi

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Malawi

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2016 - 2021

Partner(s)

Let Girls Learn (LGL) initiative, launched by the United States Government in March 2015

Ministry Affiliation

Malawi’s Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST)

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other skills

  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • School facilities
  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Girls in school

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • Other family members
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Improving transportation

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of classrooms
  • Construction/improvement of schools

School-related gender-based violence

  • Safe and welcoming schools
  • Safe transportation

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased school completion (general)

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved mental health
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms