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)
Location(s)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Angola
Government Affiliation
Government-affiliated programYears
2021 - 2025
Partner(s)
Not applicable or unknown
Ministry Affiliation
Ministry of EducationFunder(s)
COVID-19 Response
UnknownGeographic Scope
NationalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
UnknownAreas 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
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)