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

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2017 - 2023

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Areas of Work Back to Top

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

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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 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