UNESCO-HNA Partnership for Girls’ and Women’s Education: Ethiopia

  • P Project/Program

I Inactive

Key Information

The UNESCO-HNA Partnership for Girls’ and Women’s Education is promoting holistic, multi-sectoral approaches that reinforce the capacity of the education system and foster cooperation with other sectors such as health and social welfare. It engages communities, including civil society and parents, in the promotion of adolescent girls’ education and strengthens community-based and flexible education for those hardest to reach. In Ethiopia, the project aims to build human and institutional capacities in three Higher Learning Institutions and 12 upper and secondary schools in gender-responsive pedagogy; improve adolescent girls’ life skills; and create a gender-responsive and safe learning environment at schools through community engagement. As part of the project, over 5,000 pre- and in-service teachers are building their capacity to teach with a gender lens; and more than 7,000 girls have been empowered to promote gender equality and girls’ rights through mini-media and girls’ club activities.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Ethiopia

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2015 - 2020

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education

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

  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School quality
  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • School administrators
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

  • N/A

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Social/gender norms change

  • Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Work with community leaders

Teaching

  • Hiring more female teachers
  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • Pre-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved critical thinking
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

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