Technology to Enhance Access to Education & Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights - Zambia

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

With a $50,000 grant from 60 million girls, Young, Happy, Healthy and Safe (YHHS) will reach 2,000 children and youth with information on sexual and reproductive health and HIV prevention, pay school fees for 100 girls, produce sanitary pads for 150 girls, provide 150 students with school supplies, train peer educators and form girl networks, oversee income-generating initiatives for young women, and work with local leaders and government services to ensure the registration of girls in school. YHHS has also identified the important need for new technology to improve access to quality education for girls in remote rural communities. A Mobile Learning Lab (MLL) will integrate seamlessly and beautifully into this panoply of care. In an area where electricity is erratic and Internet access is not dependable, and where many girls are behind on their education, the MLL will help students, teachers and families ensure dependable access to critical information about the curriculum, training modules, sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence, income generation and community activism. More importantly, it will lead to student-led and -initiated learning.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Zambia

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2019 -

Partner(s)

Stephen Lewis Foundation, Young Happy Healthy and Safe

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

Sub-national

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary enrollment
  • Secondary completion

Other

  • Other

Other skills

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

Quality

  • School quality

Cross-cutting areas

  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • HIV and STIs
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Mentorship
  • 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

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

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

Other populations reached

  • Brothers
  • Community leaders
  • Fathers
  • Mothers
  • Other community members - female
  • Other community members - male
  • Sisters
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

  • Other

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Educating girls about menstruation
  • Raising awareness about menstruation (beyond just girls)
  • Sanitary product distribution

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Peer mentors
  • Teachers as mentors

Other

  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)

Reducing economic barriers

  • Addressing cost of school supplies
  • Reducing/eliminating school fees

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Empowerment training
  • Leadership training
  • Self-help groups (financial, including savings and credit groups)

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

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

Cross-cutting goals

  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS