Girls Empowerment and Quality Education for All Project

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Key Information

The development objectives of Girls Empowerment and Quality Education for All Project for Sao Tome and Principe are to equip girls with life skills and improve student learning outcomes for all. This project has five components. 1) The first component, Empowering Girls through the Acquisition of Life Skills and the Promotion of a Safe School Environment, aims at promoting the acquisition of life skills and strengthening SRH education through girls’ and boys’ clubs and community outreach strategies. It has the following sub-components: (i) Imparting life skills and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education; and (ii) Fostering a safer school environment. 2) The second component, Tackling Learning Poverty, has the following sub-components: (i) Teacher professional development and provision of Teaching and Learning Material (TLMs); (ii) Strengthening teacher management and school leadership; and (iii) Classroom observation and Learning assessment systems. 3) The third component, Reaching the Most Vulnerable, aims to support improved learning outcomes among students who are lagging behind by preventing them from repeating and dropping out of school and to reduce the number of out-of-school children. 4) The fourth component, Project Coordination, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Capacity Building, has the following two sub-components: (i) Project Coordination and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E); and (ii) Capacity development, research and policy analysis. 5) The fifth component, Contingent Emergency Response Component (CERC) aims to allow the government to request the World Bank to provide rapid reallocation of project funds to respond promptly and effectively to an eligible emergency or crisis that is a natural or man-made disaster or crisis that has caused or is likely to imminently cause a major adverse economic and/or social impact.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Sao Tome and Principe

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Sao Tome and Principe

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2020 - 2025

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture (Ministerio da Educacao, Ciencias e Cultura)

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Not changed

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education

Quality

  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Girls in school

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • School administrators
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Curriculum/learning

  • Increased availability of learning materials

Life skills education

  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)

School-related gender-based violence

  • Safe and welcoming schools

Teaching

  • Hiring more female teachers
  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)

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 literacy
  • Increased numeracy

Cross-cutting goals

  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms