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
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2020 -
Partner(s)
Not applicable or unknown
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownFunder(s)
COVID-19 Response
AdaptedGeographic Scope
NationalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
UnknownAreas 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
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)
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