Improving Girls' Education (IGE) Project - Senegal

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I Inactive

Key Information

Existing statistics indicate that slightly more than a third of the rapidly growing sub-Saharan region’s population is between the age of 10 and 19. It therefore follows that substantial investment in their education and well-being need to be done in order to tap into the demographic dividend and the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Unfortunately, the population in this region have poor education and sexual reproductive health and rights outcomes. In West Africa, Senegal has the lowest girls’ enrollment rates, transition, and poor sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) knowledge among girls and young women. However for targeted interventions and better decision-making, there is need to build evidence. The IGE project is two-phased, involving the following components: Phase I: comprehensive scoping review to a) establish the status of education and the implications of SRHR for adolescent girls’ education in West Africa; b) an analysis of the policy environment; and, c) characterising the landscape of policy actors and organisations that have worked or are working in the Senegal girls’ education space. Policy and program actors will be engaged to engender policy formulation, refinement and/or better implementation. With this evidence, policymakers will be in a better position to access, synthesise, adapt and utilise available research evidence for informed decision-making. Phase II: exploratory study that will involve in-depth interviews with select program implementers of the interventions covered in the scoping review in phase 1; select ministries; educators; SRHR practitioners; and adolescent girls and boys who were beneficiaries of the selected programs.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Senegal

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2019 - 2021

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

Attainment

  • Post-secondary
  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion

Other skills

  • Rights/empowerment education

Skills

  • Other academic performance-related

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Early/child marriage
  • Female genital mutilation/cutting
  • HIV and STIs
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Other cultural practices

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

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

Age

10 - 19

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

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

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)