Operation Come To School Project

  • P Project/Program

A Active

Key Information

Supported by the Government of Kenya, this unique partnership set out to bring 40,000 out of school children in Nairobi County back to school and retain them. To ensure that the 40,000 OOSC ( 50% girls) were enrolled and retained in school, WERK:

(i) Built the capacity of /sensitized the community, education officials at both national and county level, BOMs and the children themselves to mount vigorous and sustained enrollment and attendance drives;
(ii) Distributed back to school kits for the needy children to facilitate school enrollment;
(iii) Availed partial scholarships for selected children;
(iv) Improved the school sanitation condition by adopting UNICEF wash strategy to support school hygiene and boost attendance especially for girls;
(vi) Improved the skills of the stakeholders in child friendly standards model to enhance retention;
(vii) Developed county-level systems (including county attendance/enrolment drive strategy and documenting county level best practices in enrolment drives); and
(viii) Empowered the members of the Association of Complementary Schools of Kenya to aid registration of their member schools by Ministry of Education to access Free Primary Education fund.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2018 - 2030

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education

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
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary Enrollment

Quality

  • School facilities
  • School quality

Skills

  • Other academic performance-related

Cross-cutting areas

  • Gender equality
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Sports
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

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

Other populations reached

  • Other community members - female
  • Other community members - male
  • School administrators
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Educating girls about menstruation

Reducing economic barriers

  • Addressing cost of school supplies
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees

Water and sanitation

  • Construction/improvement of sex-specific toilets

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)

Cross-cutting goals

  • Other

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Women Education Researchers of Kenya (WERK)
info@werk.co.ke