Girls' Empowerment Program (GEP)

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Key Information

Girls’ Empowerment Program (GEP) is a school-based human rights education initiative targeting girls 8-17 years old in Togo. The program creates a safe space where girls learn about their bodies, their rights and their potential. GEP addresses issues of early marriage, gender-based violence and human trafficking, providing sexual and reproductive information and life skills so that schools become safe places for girls to pursue an education, assert their rights and participate in the decisions that affect their lives. With $100,000 in funding from 60 million girls, Crossroads will introduce Mobile Learning Labs (MLLs) in five girls’ clubs and one boys’ club in five schools in Tsévié, Togo. The beneficiaries will be at-risk girls chosen for their vulnerability – at risk of early marriage, pregnancy or trafficking. In total, 150 girls, 30 boys, 25 teachers and 10 parents will be directly involved in the project.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Togo

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2019 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other

  • Other

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • School quality

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Community sensitization
  • Early/child marriage
  • Gender equality
  • Masculinities/boys
  • Other
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

8 - 17

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • Fathers
  • Mothers
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

  • Other

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula
  • Remedial education/skills

Educational Technology

  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Other
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being