Building Girls to Live, Learn, Laugh and ‘SCHIP’ in Strong, Creative, Holistic, Inclusive, Protective, Quality Education

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Key Information

This project works through a number of CRANE’s partner organisations which are largely based in the Central Region of Uganda. The project does not manage any schools but provides a wide range of activities that support schools in management and teaching and child protection. The project provides support, at the national level, to the Ministry of Education (MoES). Key components of the project include Mentors, Creative Learning Centres, Learning Support Teachers, and a capacity-strengthening program in school management called the Quality Improvement System (QIS). Mentors live in the communities where project schools are located. Mentors were responsible for the initial recruitment of girls considered likely to fail in education during the first phase of the project. Creative Learning Centres (CLCs) provide high-quality teaching that helps the selected Girls to go into or continue in mainstream school. The project provides support to over 50 different schools which includes Learning Support Teachers who provide targeted teaching and teacher training. The Quality Improvement System (QIS) covers six different areas in school management. Improvements in management performance are checked by Viva and CRANE school visits and validated by external assessors. The project supports the MoES in assessments of special education needs and has helped create an assessment centre in Kampala. It has also been pioneering an improved system for school inspections.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Uganda

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Uganda

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2017 - 2024

Partner(s)

Viva, Children at Risk Action Network (CRANE)

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES)

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other

  • Remote Learning

Other skills

  • Financial literacy
  • Vocational training

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • STEM

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • Digital literacy
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Mentorship

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls out of school, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • Girls in school
  • Mothers
  • School administrators
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

  • N/A

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Mothers' clubs
  • School management committees

Curriculum/learning

  • Remedial education/skills

Health and childcare services

  • Referrals to health services

Learning while working

  • Vocational training

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Adult (non-teacher) mentors

Reducing economic barriers

  • Financial literacy training
  • Income-generating activities

School-related gender-based violence

  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Teachers and learners have the knowledge and skills to promote gender equality

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved maternal, newborn, and/or child health (MNCH)
  • Improved mental health
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • Reduced violence against children in the home