Zimbabwe Girls Secondary Education 2012 - 2023
- P Project/Program
I Inactive
Key Information
To strengthen scope and quality of educational service by issuing bursaries, enhancing student access, retention and achievement in the secondary cycle with special attention to disadvantaged girls and boys in 1046 schools across 29 districts to complete 4 years secondary education by 2020. This contributes to the realisation of Global Goal 4.
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Zimbabwe
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2012 - 2023
Partner(s)
Not applicable or unknown
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownCOVID-19 Response
UnknownGeographic Scope
NationalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
UnknownAreas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
- Secondary completion
Other skills
- Life skills/sexuality education
- Social and emotional learning
Quality
- School quality
- School-related gender-based violence
Skills
- Literacy
Cross-cutting areas
- Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Early/child marriage
- HIV and STIs
- Masculinities/boys
- Mentorship
- Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
- Other cultural practices
- Social and gender norms and beliefs
Program participants
Target Audience(s)
Boys in school, Girls in school, Youth
Age
Not applicable or unknown
School Enrolment Status
All in school
School Level
- Lower secondary
- Upper secondary
Other populations reached
- Fathers
- Girls out of school
- Mothers
- Other caregivers
- Other community members - female
- Parent-teacher associations/school management committees
- Religious leaders
- School administrators
- Teachers - female
- Teachers - male
Participants include
- Orphans and vulnerable children
- People with disabilities
Program Approaches Back to Top
Access to school
- Expanding boarding opportunities
- Improving transportation
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
- Community mobilization
Curriculum/learning
- Increased availability of learning materials
Food/nutrition
- School feeding
Life skills education
- Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
- Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building
Menstrual hygiene management
- Sanitary product distribution
Mentoring/psychosocial support
- Adult (non-teacher) mentors
- Peer mentors
- Teachers as mentors
Policy/legal environment
- Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
- Raising awareness about existing laws/policies
Reducing economic barriers
- Addressing cost of school supplies
- Financial literacy training
- Reducing/eliminating school fees
- Scholarships/stipends for school fees
School-related gender-based violence
- Safe channels/mechanisms for reporting violence
- Safe transportation
- Training of school personnel (including teachers)
Social/gender norms change
- Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
- Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents
- Work with community leaders
- Work with religious leaders
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
- Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
- Increased grade attainment
- Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
- Increased secondary school completion
- Increased years of schooling
- Reduced absenteeism
Cross-cutting goals
- Improved financial literacy and savings
- Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
- Increased advocacy/civic engagement
- Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
- Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)