GEARR-ing Up for Success After School

  • A Advocacy Campaign/Project

I Inactive

Key Information

The Girls’ Enrollment, Attendance, Retention & Results (GEARR) Project in Uganda, also known as GEARR-ing Up for Success After School is run by PEAS. PEAS establishes and operates low-cost private schools using a public-private partnership (PPP) model. PEAS has 28 schools in Uganda which serve disadvantaged communities in mainly rural areas.

The project aimed to make this affordable quality education more accessible to 7,400 marginalised girls. It offered teacher training in English and Maths, and in approaches that are more sensitive to gender. Girls’ Clubs provided girls with safe spaces to develop their skills and build their confidence. Girls were offered access to higher education scholarships and greater guidance on their employment and training opportunities after school.

Activities:

  • Teacher training in English and Maths and gender-sensitive teaching approaches

  • Expanded and improved A-level provision 

  • Established Girls’ Clubs in schools to ensure girls had a space to interact with peers and build their self-esteem and confidence

  • Improved guidance on post school opportunities and provided access to higher education scholarships

  • Delivered annual school improvement and leadership programmes for project schools in order to support better school performance

  • Delivered community information sessions to build awareness on the importance of education and the benefits of delaying marriage and pregnancy

  • Continues to work with government to improve affordable education through public-private partnerships

PEAS: https://www.peas.org.uk/

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Uganda

Activity URL

https://girlseducationchallenge.org/projects/project/gearr-ing-up-for-success-after-school/#/article/gearr-ing-up-for-success-after-school

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2017 - 2021

Partner(s)

Capital Infrastructure funders

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES)

Funder(s)

Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) Fund

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational
  • Tertiary

Other populations reached

  • Parent-teacher associations/school management committees
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

  • N/A

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Parent Teacher Associations (PTA)

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
  • Public-private partnerships

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Self-help groups (non-financial)

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Curricula, teaching and learning materials are free of gender-bias and stereotypes
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Teachers and learners have the knowledge and skills to promote gender equality

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved mental health
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced violence against children in the home