General Education, Ethiopia

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Key Information

Save the Children- Ethiopia focuses on strengthening education systems and structures to realize quality Early Childhood Care services for deprived and marginalized 4-6 age children as well as primary education. The organization is continuously working with the education sector at all levels on policy and advocacy issues, capacity building, and curriculum development. In the Basic Education program, Save the Children aims at improving inclusive access and learning outcomes for most deprived and marginalized children, particularly girls, IDPs, refugees and children living with disabilities. To improve quality-related objectives, Save the Children employs its globally well-known Ready to Learn (ELM), Building Brains, Literacy Boost and Numeracy Boost innovative approaches. The Literacy Boost and Numeracy Boost approaches are aimed at improving children's learning outcomes. Save the Children is implementing Education in Emergency and with long-term development programs.  SCI programs support Government of Ethiopia's delivery structures, allowing us to achieve scale with our proven approaches. We achieve change for children by building evidence from innovations, partnering with key stakeholders, and being the voice for change to implement our programs at scale to impact millions of children.  


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2019 -

Partner(s)

Ethiopia School Meal Initiative

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Norwegian Embassy, Finland Embassy, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), OCHA

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

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Social and emotional learning
  • Vocational training

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School facilities
  • School quality
  • School violence
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Gender equality
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • 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

4 - 14

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Pre-school
  • Lower primary
  • Lower secondary

Other populations reached

  • Mothers
  • Other community members - female
  • Parent-teacher associations/school management committees
  • School administrators
  • Teachers - female

Participants include

  • Displaced/refugee - External (from other countries)
  • Displaced/refugee - Internal (from other areas of the same country)
  • Indigenous
  • Migrants from other countries
  • People with disabilities

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Mothers' clubs
  • Parent Teacher Associations (PTA)
  • School management committees

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula
  • Remedial education/skills

Educational Technology

  • Digital learning materials/programs
  • Online training

Food/nutrition

  • School feeding

Health and childcare services

  • Referrals to health services

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Increased availability of Math materials (rulers, protractors, calculators, etc.)
  • Increased availability of Writing materials
  • Textbooks (paper)

Life skills education

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

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Adult (non-teacher) mentors

Other

  • Informational interventions (e.g. returns to education)

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
  • Raising awareness about existing laws/policies

Reducing economic barriers

  • Addressing cost of school supplies
  • Conditional cash transfers to schools
  • Financial literacy training
  • Microcredit
  • Savings accounts
  • Vouchers/grants

School-related gender-based violence

  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct
  • Safe and welcoming schools
  • Safe channels/mechanisms for reporting violence
  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)
  • Violence prevention curriculum/activities for students

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

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

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Leadership training
  • Self-help groups (financial, including savings and credit groups)
  • Self-help groups (non-financial)

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased literacy
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased test scores
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Reduced grade repetition

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved maternal, newborn, and/or child health (MNCH)
  • Improved mental health
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equal power in relationships
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced intimate partner violence
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS
  • Reduced violence against children in the home

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Mellese Bedanie
Save the Children
Education Thematic Director, Save the Children - Ethiopia
Mellese.Bedanie@savthechildren.org
+251911429812