Libraries Without Walls: Improving Access to Quality Education for Children and Youth in Malakal, South Sudan

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Key Information

The $100,000 grant from 60 million girls to War Child is designed to promote sustainability by developing the ability of local teachers, community volunteers and partner staff (Upper Nile Youth Development Association – UNYDA) to incorporate digital technology into their lesson plans and pedagogical approach, while leveraging existing relationships with Ministries of Education to integrate the Mobile Learning Lab (MLL) into education programs. This MLL project will improve access to quality education for girls in South Sudan, where 76% of girls are out of school and the literacy rate is only 36%. The project will be integrated into WCC’s existing primary and secondary education programs in Malakal, Upper Nile. This innovative approach will increase quality of education, foster self-directed learning, improve critical thinking and enhance the supportive learning environment for girls. The project will work to address some of the barriers to girls’ education by incorporating weekly MLL classes (complementary to the curriculum) into WCC’s education programs, targeting a minimum of 50% girls, as well as providing classes to 200 girls who are out of school. In addition, boys and girls will learn from stories and games that feature females in a variety of professions and roles, promoting the value of girls’ education.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

South Sudan

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2019 -

Partner(s)

War Child Canada

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

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
  • Secondary completion

Other

  • Early childhood development
  • Other

Other skills

  • Social and emotional learning
  • Vocational training

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School quality

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Early/child marriage
  • Gender equality

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

  • Other

Participants include

  • Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
  • Other

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula
  • Increased availability of learning materials

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

School-related gender-based violence

  • Violence prevention curriculum/activities for students

Teaching

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

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • 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 secondary school completion
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms