Girls Empowerment and Learning for All Project

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Key Information

The Angola - Girls Empowerment and Learning for All Project seeks to empower Angolan youth, particularly girls, while improving education quality nationwide. The project addresses adolescent empowerment through health services, second-chance education, and life skills training. Health-related initiatives aim to reduce early pregnancies and marriage by integrating sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education into schools and engaging community leaders in behavior change campaigns. Targeted skills programs for out-of-school youth focus on accelerated learning, financial literacy, and employment opportunities, with a strong emphasis on women’s economic empowerment. Simultaneously, barriers to girls’ education are tackled by improving WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) facilities in schools, promoting menstrual hygiene management (MHM), and implementing measures to reduce school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV). Support also includes scholarships, uniforms, and other interventions to keep girls in school, especially in low-income households.

To improve overall learning outcomes, the project invests in reducing Angola’s learning poverty by enhancing teacher recruitment, training, and classroom practices. It develops modern teacher management systems, supports peer-to-peer learning, and introduces innovative teaching materials and student assessments to strengthen literacy and teaching quality. The project also creates safer, more inclusive school environments through expanded infrastructure, focusing on gender-sensitive and climate-resilient designs, such as separate latrines and universal access for disabled students. School management processes are professionalized at all levels to ensure accountability and long-term improvement in educational outcomes. Together, these interventions aim to transform Angola’s education system into an equitable and high-quality platform for empowering youth and fostering national development.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Angola

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Angola

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2021 - 2025

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education

Funder(s)

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

  • Primary enrollment
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education

Quality

  • School facilities
  • School quality
  • School-related gender-based violence

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • Gender equality
  • Masculinities/boys
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Community leaders, Girls (both in school and out of school), School administrators, Teachers - female, Teachers - male

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Not applicable or unknown

School Level

Not applicable or unknown

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

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

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of classrooms

Life skills education

  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • School-based counselors

Other

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

Reducing economic barriers

  • Addressing cost of school supplies
  • Conditional cash transfers (including non-cash goods) to individuals/households
  • Financial literacy training

School-related gender-based violence

  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)

Social/gender norms change

  • Work with community leaders

Water and sanitation

  • Construction/improvement of sex-specific toilets

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)