Inclusive Education Support Program

  • P Project/Program

I Inactive

Key Information

The education program of VSO Ethiopia aims to ensure that all in and out of school disadvantaged pre-primary and primary school children have equitable access to good quality pre-primary and primary education. VSO-E particularly endeavors to ensure all disadvantaged children, including those under drought and crisis conditions, in pre-primary and primary education, have access to education services, with a focus on basic and alternative education services. The program objective deals with building the capacity of the education sector to respond as per the country's education and training policy through designing tailored training and support programs that could enable the capacity of partner and primary actors. The program targets children and community members through grass-root level capacity-building interventions. In the program, children are the direct benefits of learning material support and strengthening of clubs on Gender-based violence (GBV), Psychosocial support, Girl’s education, Child protection, and other related issues. 

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia

Activity URL

https://www.vsointernational.org/our-work/where-we-work/ethiopia

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2017 - 2022

Partner(s)

Regional and Zone Education Offices, Teacher Education Colleges, City Education Offices

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary enrollment

Other

  • Early childhood development

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • School-related gender-based violence
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Empowerment
  • Female genital mutilation/cutting
  • Gender equality
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Other cultural practices
  • Sexual harassment & coercion

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Community leaders, Girls (both in school and out of school), Parent-teacher associations/school management committees, Youth

Age

5 - 14

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary

Other populations reached

  • Boys (both in school and out of school)
  • Girls (both in school and out of school)
  • Religious leaders
  • School administrators

Participants include

  • Displaced/refugee - Internal (from other areas of the same country)
  • Indigenous
  • Internal migrants (from other areas of the same country)
  • Nomadic groups
  • Orphans and vulnerable children

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
  • Parent Teacher Associations (PTA)
  • School management committees

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula

Educational Technology

  • Digital learning materials/programs
  • Online training

Health and childcare services

  • Referrals to health services

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Increased availability of Math materials (rulers, protractors, calculators, etc.)

Life skills education

  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • School-based counselors
  • Teachers as mentors

Other

  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)
  • Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)
  • Other activities to end FGM (not captured above)

Reducing economic barriers

  • Income-generating activities
  • Uniforms

School-related gender-based violence

  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct
  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Work with community leaders
  • Work with religious leaders

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general
  • Pre-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • Pre-service teacher training – pedagogy general

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training
  • 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 social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased literacy
  • Increased numeracy
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved mental health
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced intimate partner violence
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Rahel Gebremariam
VSO International
Country Director
Rahel.Gebremariam@vsoint.org