Educate Girls, End Poverty

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Key Information

This project supported 31,180 of the hardest to reach girls, in mainly urban areas of Somalia, to increase their educational achievements and to successfully transition from primary to secondary education or vocational and employment opportunities.The most marginalised girls included internally displaced people, orphans, girls with disabilities, ethnic and clan minorities and girls in conflict-affected and remote areas. The project thus ensures that the education and psychosocial support offered was tailored to their level and type of marginalisation. Activities included: 

  • Improved access to education for marginalised girls, and encouraged the development of life skills through the provision of bursaries, sanitary kits, solar lamps and Girls' Clubs, which provided psychosocial support
  • Supported female mentors to run leadership activities for girls, which encourage them to voice their concerns and promoted the benefits of their own education
  • Encouraged communities to participate in planning and monitoring processes for their schools, and to play a lead role in supporting girls to complete school through community-led behavioural change
  • Worked with Ministry of Education and Teacher Training Institutes to train primary and secondary school teachers in improved teaching practices, gender-friendly and inclusive education, and English language skills


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Somalia

Somaliland

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Somalia

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2017 - 2020

Partner(s)

Sayara International

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education and Teacher Training Institutes

Funder(s)

  • Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC-T)

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 skills

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

Quality

  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response
  • Gender equality
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Mentorship
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school)

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

Not applicable or unknown

Other populations reached

  • Other community members - female

Participants include

  • Displaced/refugee - Internal (from other areas of the same country)
  • Indigenous
  • Orphans and vulnerable children
  • People with disabilities

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
  • Community mobilization

Life skills education

  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Educating girls about menstruation
  • Sanitary product distribution

Reducing economic barriers

  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy

Women's empowerment programs

  • Leadership training
  • Self-help groups (non-financial)

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved mental health
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms