NIGEE Vocational Training Centre

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Key Information

To serve target beneficiaries and their intersectionalities, Nyanza Initiative for Girls' Education and Empowerment offers vocational skills training on hairdressing, beauty therapy, fashion and design and basic computer skills. Once trained, the students sit for trade test exams by National Industrial Training Authority (NITA), which are 90% practical, making the courses applicable for girls who have not completed  primary education. Nyanza Initiative for Girls' Education and Empowerment has also set up a day care where under-school going children of the students are cared for while their mothers are in class. 


Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya

Activity URL

https://www.nigee.org

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2021 - 2030

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

New for COVID-19

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other

  • Transition from school to work

Other skills

  • Vocational training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Community sensitization
  • Empowerment
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls out of school, Other, Youth

Age

16 - 30

School Enrolment Status

All out of school

School Level

  • Vocational

Other populations reached

  • Community leaders
  • Mothers
  • Other caregivers
  • School administrators
  • Spouses/partners

Participants include

  • Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
  • NEET

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Health and childcare services

  • Sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning)

Learning while working

  • Apprenticeship/internship
  • Vocational training

Life skills education

  • Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)
  • Gender, rights and power
  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Raising awareness about menstruation (beyond just girls)

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • School-based counselors

Policy/legal environment

  • Raising awareness about existing laws/policies

Reducing economic barriers

  • Income-generating activities
  • Microcredit
  • Savings accounts
  • Vouchers/grants

Social/gender norms change

  • Work with community leaders

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • Reduced violence against children in the home

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Winnie Adhiambo
Nyanza Initiative for Girls Education and Empowerment (NIGEE)
waketch@nigee.org