How cash transfers help girls continue their education in Kenya
- P Project/Program
? Activity Status: Unknown
Key Information
With funding from UK AID, WUSC has been working on increasing girls’ access to education in Kenya since 2013 in the Kakuma and Dadaab Refugee Camps and their host communities. Building on this initial work and its successes, this year (2020) we expanded our programming with funding from Global Affairs Canada to Kalobeyei Settlement and its host community. Through this initiative, WUSC will also be providing additional support to help girls and young women successfully transition to work (either formally or self-employed) after they have completed their education.
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya
Government Affiliation
UnknownYears
2013 -
Partner(s)
Not applicable or unknown
Ministry Affiliation
N/ACOVID-19 Response
AdaptedGeographic Scope
NationalAreas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Other
- Transition from school to work
Other skills
- Life skills/sexuality education
- Social and emotional learning
Quality
- School quality
Cross-cutting areas
- COVID-19 Response
- Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
- Empowerment
- Gender equality
- Social and gender norms and beliefs
Program participants
Target Audience(s)
Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth
Age
5 - 25
School Enrolment Status
Some in school
School Level
- Lower primary
- Upper primary
- Lower secondary
- Upper secondary
- Vocational
Other populations reached
Not applicable or unknown
Participants include
Not applicable or unknown
Program Approaches Back to Top
Access to school
- Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
- Community mobilization
- General awareness-raising/community engagement
Curriculum/learning
- Remedial education/skills
Educational Technology
- Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
- Digital learning materials/programs
Learning while working
- Vocational training
Life skills education
- Gender, rights and power
- Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building
Other
- Informational interventions (e.g. returns to education)
- 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)
Policy/legal environment
- Developing/promoting new laws/policies
- Public-private partnerships
Reducing economic barriers
- Addressing cost of school supplies
- Conditional cash transfers (including non-cash goods) to individuals/households
- Financial literacy training
- Reducing/eliminating school fees
- Scholarships/stipends for school fees
- Unconditional cash transfers (including non-cash goods) to individuals/households
School-related gender-based violence
- Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
Social/gender norms change
- Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
Teaching
- Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
- Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
- Increased school enrolment (general)
- Reduced absenteeism
Cross-cutting goals
- Improved critical consciousness
- Improved financial literacy and savings
- Improved mental health
- Improved nutrition
- Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
- Increased agency and empowerment
- Increased employment/job-related skills
- Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Reduced child marriage
- Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
Additional Information Back to Top
Primary Contact
- Mary Kwena
- World University Service of Canada (WUSC)
- Project Manager
- mkwena@wusc.ca