Educate!'s School Solution

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Key Information

Educate! delivers its core experience directly in secondary schools in Uganda through the Educate! Experience. Rigorous evaluations, including a randomized controlled trial (RCT), found that Educate!’s model delivered to youth directly in schools nearly doubles the income of students towards the end of secondary school. Four years later, a follow-up RCT found that youth skills significantly increase alongside improvements in educational and gender-related outcomes.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Uganda

Activity URL

https://www.experienceeducate.org/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2009 - 2030

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Secondary completion

Other

  • Transition from school to work

Other skills

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

Cross-cutting areas

  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Mentorship
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Girls in school, Youth

Age

14 - 20

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • Other community members - female
  • Other community members - male
  • Other family members

Participants include

  • N/A

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

Other

  • Informational interventions (e.g. returns to education)

Reducing economic barriers

  • Income-generating activities

Social/gender norms change

  • Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training
  • Leadership training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

Not applicable or unknown

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • More equal power in relationships
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced intimate partner violence
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Diana Mwai
Educate!
Program Director, Kenya