Capacity Building of Grassroots Organizations

  • P Project/Program

A Active

Key Information

GRIC supports carefully selected grassroots organizations to blossom and thrive. To achieve this goal, they strengthen their capacity through a variety of strategies which include trainings, and individualized mentoring and coaching sessions. Partners are grouped in clusters to allow for peer-to-peer learning and cross-pollination of ideas. The CBOs access subgrants from GRIC and network with likeminded institutions who provide additional fiscal resources.

Some of the key capacity strengthening areas identified and supported across partners include documentation, monitoring, learning, and evaluation, financial and human resource management, resource mobilization and different methodologies of supporting children to learn.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya

Activity URL

https://www.gricafrica.org/program/grassroots-organizations/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2020 - 2023

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Well Spring Philanthropic Fund

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

Geographic Scope

National

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary to secondary transition

Other

  • Remote Learning

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Community sensitization
  • Early/child marriage
  • Gender equality
  • Mentorship

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Community leaders, Fathers, Girls in school, Mothers, Other caregivers, Other community members - female, Other community members - male, Parent-teacher associations/school management committees, Religious leaders, School administrators, Teachers - female, Teachers - male, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

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

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

  • Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
  • Indigenous
  • Nomadic groups
  • Orphans and vulnerable children

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Extending school hours

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization
  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments

Curriculum/learning

  • Remedial education/skills

Health and childcare services

  • Sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning)

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Increased availability of Fiction/non-fiction books (paper)

Learning while working

  • Apprenticeship/internship

Life skills education

  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Raising awareness about menstruation (beyond just girls)
  • Sanitary product distribution

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Peer mentors
  • Teachers as mentors

Reducing economic barriers

  • Addressing cost of school supplies
  • Income-generating activities
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees

School-related gender-based violence

  • Safe and welcoming schools

Social/gender norms change

  • Work with community 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

Women's empowerment programs

  • Self-help groups (financial, including savings and credit groups)

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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 literacy
  • Increased numeracy
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased test scores
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
  • Reduced violence against children in the home

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Wangui Nyaga
Grassroots Nest for Innovations and Change (GRIC - AFRICA)
Executive Director
info@gricafrica.org