Empowering Girls Through Intercultural Gender Transformative Education in Riberalta - Bolivia

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Key Information

This program main goal is to develop an innovative, intercultural and gender transformative educational model in 20 primary schools
that improves learning, empowerment, and life expectations of 6000 indigenous children. The project has prioritized its intervention in the municipality of Riberalta, one of the municipalities of Bolivia where 60% of the population lives in poverty, which affects school performance of children, as many must drop out of school over different periods of time to support the income of their families. Also, discrimination, different types of violence, teenage pregnancy and low-quality education are other obstacles to continuing their education. Therefore, schools have students who are older than expected for their grade level (falling behind in school), there are pregnancies at earlier ages, temporary school dropouts, and lack of family support for education. The Project baseline and two supplementary studies were use for a diagnosis of teaching strategies and a study on children and teenager life projects in Riberalta as a basis for the design of digital tools; and 8 diagnostic workshops to identify how the teaching curricula adapted to the Kabineño, Chácobo and Pacahuara peoples are being implemented, and how to incorporate a gender approach.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Latin America & Caribbean

Bolivia, Plurinational State of

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2019 - 2024

Partner(s)

Fundación Machaqa Amawta (FMA), Plurinational Institute for the Study of Languages ​​and Cultures (Bolivia)

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

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

Other

  • Remote Learning

Other skills

  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning
  • Vocational training

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • STEM

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Digital literacy
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Other cultural practices
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

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

  • Community leaders
  • Fathers
  • Mothers
  • Other caregivers
  • Other community members - female
  • Other community members - male
  • Parent-teacher associations/school management committees
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

  • Indigenous

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula
  • Increased availability of learning materials

Educational Technology

  • Computer-assisted learning
  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital learning materials/programs

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Educational Radio or Television Programs

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

School-related gender-based violence

  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct

Social/gender norms change

  • Media campaigns

Teaching

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

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • STEM - outside the classroom

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Curricula, teaching and learning materials are free of gender-bias and stereotypes
  • Gender parity and non-discrimination are promoted at all subjects/education levels
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Teachers and learners have the knowledge and skills to promote gender equality

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved mental health
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Paola Carballo
Oxfam International
paolaalejandra.carballo@oxfam.org