Multi-Year Resilience Programme (MYRP) in Burkina Faso

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Key Information

On January 2021 the Government of Burkina Faso with support from UNICEF, Enfants du Monde and Education Cannot Wait (ECW) launched a new multi-year programme that aims to provide education to over 800,000 children and adolescents in crisis-affected regions of Burkina Faso. The planned interventions aimed to meet the full range of needs of vulnerable children and youth, including mental health, psychosocial and nutrition support, as well as focusing on girls’ education and the promotion of safe and protective learning environments in line with the Safe School Declaration. ECW’s multi-year funding targets 60 per cent girls, and focuses on the most vulnerable, including both forcibly displaced and host community children, as well as children with disabilities. The programme ensures continuity from early childhood education (25 per cent of the total children targeted), to primary (43 per cent) and secondary (33 per cent). ECW funding reaches students, primarily girls, with individual learning materials and supports students through remedial classes. Accelerated schooling is implemented in learning centres to assist internally-displaced students. Remedial courses are provided for students in preparation for end-of-year exams. Training for educators is provided. Several hundred teachers and community representatives received training on various topics, including psychosocial support, disaster risk reduction, the ‘safe school’ approach and child safeguarding. Additional teachers have been trained and have also developed risk mitigation plans in schools across Burkina Faso.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Burkina Faso

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Burkina Faso

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2019 - 2024

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of National Education, Literacy and Promotion of National Languages

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

Geographic Scope

Sub-national

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary enrollment
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other

  • Early childhood development

Quality

  • School facilities

Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • 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

  • Pre-school
  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • Community leaders
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

  • Orphans and vulnerable children
  • People with disabilities

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization

Curriculum/learning

  • Remedial education/skills

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of classrooms

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Textbooks (paper)

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Reducing economic barriers

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

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Gender parity and non-discrimination are promoted at all subjects/education levels
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced grade repetition
  • Teachers and learners have the knowledge and skills to promote gender equality

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved health - other
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Graham Lang
Education Cannot Wait
glang@un-ecw.org