Safe Schools for Girls (SS4G) in Rwanda

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Key Information

CARE Rwanda’s Safe Schools for Girls (SS4G) program is part of a 5-year (2015 – 2020) multi-country initiative aimed at improving the quality of education for marginalized adolescents in Cambodia, Kenya, Mali, India, Nepal, Rwanda and Zimbabwe. More specifically, SS4G aims to enable 97,564 students (50,797 girls and 46, 767 boys) aged 11 – 18 years, who come from low socio-economic backgrounds to pursue their education using four key approaches: a mentorship model as a tool to help teachers to listen to challenging issues and emotions of girls and to provide guidance; a saving and loan methodology for financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy; a scorecard to provide feedback to the school management on performance and an "engaged boys” campaing to support girls’ education.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Rwanda

Activity URL

https://www.ungei.org/sites/default/files/Safe-Schools-for-Girls-SS4G-An-Innovative-Approach-to-Improving-Retention-for-Adolescent-Girls-in-Rwanda-2019-eng.pdf

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2015 - 2020

Partner(s)

Africa Evangelical Enterprise (AEE), Rwandan Association of Trauma Counsellors (ARCT-Ruhuka)

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other skills

  • Financial literacy

Quality

  • School-related gender-based violence
  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Community sensitization
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Masculinities/boys
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary

Other populations reached

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

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Health and childcare services

  • Referrals to health services

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Teachers as mentors

Reducing economic barriers

  • Financial literacy training
  • Income-generating activities

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased secondary school enrolment
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Reduced grade repetition

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Improved mental health
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
  • Reduced violence against children in the home

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Sam Kalinda
CARE
sam.kalinda@care.org