Let our Girls Succeed - Wasichana Wetu Wafaulu
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Key Information
Let our Girls Succeed works with marginalised girls living in arid and semi-arid lands and slum areas in Kenya. It provides primary school girls with the qualifications, skills and confidence necessary to successfully transition to a productive next phase of life. Through improved teaching quality, the majority of girls are expected to transition to secondary level education. With improved literacy and numeracy skills, the girls also have a greater chance of being able to attend higher performing schools.
Activities include:
- Providing engaging catch-up classes for girls who have dropped out of school
- Offering girls’ clubs in primary and secondary schools which include peer mentoring and sexual and reproductive health training. These clubs are supported with income generating activities such as school gardening and poultry rearing
- Identifying apprenticeship opportunities within the private sector
- Teacher coaching and training in 521 primary and 45 secondary schools with a focus on enhanced ICT competencies and gender-sensitive and inclusive approaches
- Promoting income generating activities by awarding grants to mainly older girls and running community groups to support women
- Providing needs-based financial support to assist with school costs or TVET fees Working closely with the Government and Ministries to improve 25 existing TVET centres
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya
Activity URL
https://girlseducationchallenge.org/projects/project/let-our-girls-succeed-wasichana-wetu-wafaulu/
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2017 - 2023
Partner(s)
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownFunder(s)
Not applicable or unknown
COVID-19 Response
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NationalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
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Education areas
Attainment
- Primary completion
- Primary to secondary transition
- Secondary Enrollment
Other
- Transition from school to work
Other skills
- Financial literacy
- Life skills/sexuality education
- Rights/empowerment education
- Social and emotional learning
- Vocational training
Quality
- Curricula/lesson plans
- School quality
- School-related gender-based violence
- School violence
- Teacher training
Skills
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- STEM
Cross-cutting areas
- Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Community sensitization
- Early/child marriage
- Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
- Emergencies and protracted crises
- Empowerment
- Female genital mutilation/cutting
- Gender equality
- HIV and STIs
- Masculinities/boys
- Mentorship
- Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
- Sexual harassment & coercion
- Social and gender norms and beliefs
- Sports
- Violence (at home, in relationships)
Program participants
Target Audience(s)
Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth
Age
11 - 18
School Enrolment Status
Some in school
School Level
- Lower primary
- Upper primary
- Lower secondary
- Upper secondary
- Vocational
Other populations reached
- Boys in school
- Fathers
- Mothers
- Parent-teacher associations/school management committees
- School administrators
- Teachers - female
- Teachers - male
Participants include
- Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
- Nomadic groups
- People with disabilities
Program Approaches Back to Top
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
- Community mobilization
- General awareness-raising/community engagement
Curriculum/learning
- Competency-level grouping
- Gender-sensitive curricula
- Increased availability of learning materials
- Remedial education/skills
Educational Technology
- Computer-assisted learning
- Digital reading materials (non-textbook)
Health and childcare services
- Referrals to health services
Life skills education
- Gender, rights and power
- Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
- Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building
Menstrual hygiene management
- Sanitary product distribution
Mentoring/psychosocial support
- Adult (non-teacher) mentors
- Peer mentors
- Teachers as mentors
Reducing economic barriers
- Addressing cost of school supplies
- Income-generating activities
- Reducing/eliminating school fees
- Scholarships/stipends for school fees
- Unconditional cash transfers (including non-cash goods) to individuals/households
- Uniforms
School-related gender-based violence
- Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct
- Safe and welcoming schools
- Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
- 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
- Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents
- Media campaigns
- Work with community leaders
- Work with religious leaders
Teaching
- In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
- In-service teacher training – pedagogy general
- Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)
Tutoring/strengthening academic skills
- Literacy - in the classroom
- Literacy - outside the classroom
- Numeracy - in the classroom
- Numeracy - outside the classroom
- STEM - in the classroom
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 numeracy
- Increased primary school completion
- Increased progression to secondary school
- Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
- Increased test scores
- Increased years of schooling
Cross-cutting goals
- Changed social norms
- Improved critical consciousness
- Improved mental health
- Improved sexual and reproductive health
- Increased knowledge of rights
- More equitable gender attitudes and norms
- Reduced poverty/increase household well-being