Our Right to Learn – Reaching the Unreached

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Key Information

Our Right to Learn – Reaching the Unreached Project aims to increase access to quality primary education for out of school children (OOSC) from resource poor households in the three counties. The project works with a total of 120 public primary schools; 45 in Kajiado (25 in Kajiado North and 20 in Mashru sub-counties), 45 in Kwale (20 in Matuga and 25 in Msambweni sub-counties) and 30 in Garissa (Balambala sub-county) counties. The project is guided by five strategies that include; 1) To promote community awareness creation via dialogues to challenge entrenched social norms and cultural practices that contribute to low enrolment and drop out. Key areas of focus include: negative attitudes and perceptions on the benefit of education particularly for the girl child, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), forced/child marriages, and child labour among others. The desired outcome at this level is change of attitude and perceptions by communities and increased communities support towards education of their children. 2) To enhance the capacity of duty bearers with a view of training them on their duties and responsibilities to enable them meet their legal obligations of enforcing implementation and monitoring of laws and policies that support enrollment and retention of OOSC as well as child protection. 3) Engendering friendliness of school environments with the aim of making them gender sensitive and attractive for girls and boys to enroll and participate in education. 4) Empower boys and girls with information on rights and life skills to enable them acquire confidence and aspiration to learn and lastly conduct policy advocacy with a view of developing policy briefs and advocacy strategies to influence policy change and actions on legal policy and frameworks that support education for OOSC.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2021 - 2021

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

  • Educate A Child (EAC)

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
  • Primary enrollment

Other skills

  • Rights/empowerment education

Quality

  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • Early/child marriage
  • Female genital mutilation/cutting
  • Gender equality
  • Other cultural practices
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys out of school, Girls out of school, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All out of school

School Level

  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary

Other populations reached

  • Other community members - female
  • Other community members - male
  • Parent-teacher associations/school management committees
  • School administrators
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
  • Parent Teacher Associations (PTA)
  • School management committees

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Other

  • Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)
  • Other activities to end FGM (not captured above)

Policy/legal environment

  • Raising awareness about existing laws/policies

School-related gender-based violence

  • Safe and welcoming schools
  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general

Water and sanitation

  • Construction/improvement of toilets (combined use)

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased primary school completion

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)