Saba Boru Integrated Community Development Program

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Key Information

The program aims to contribute to the efforts of poverty reduction through mobilizing and empowering people living in poverty, with special focus on women, youth, and excluded sections of the community through engaging and strong partnership with the local community and government actors. The major components of the program include promotion of quality education and promotion of basic services through a fund obtained from its child sponsorship program. The education component of the program consists of Increase Access to Primary Education for Children, Preschool Education Support, Material Support to ACCESS Centers, Community Participation and Material Support, Support Girls Through Tutorial Class, Awareness raising on sexual and reproductive health for school girls, Strengthening school management system through active engagement of women and children in the process of transformation. 

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia

Activity URL

Not applicable or unknown

Government Affiliation

Unknown

Years

2012 - 2021

Partner(s)

Ministry Affiliation

N/A

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition

Other

  • Early childhood development

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Community sensitization
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Female genital mutilation/cutting
  • Gender equality
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Parent-teacher associations/school management committees, School administrators, Teachers - female, Teachers - male, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Pre-school
  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary

Other populations reached

  • Community leaders
  • Other community members - female
  • Other community members - male
  • Religious leaders

Participants include

  • Indigenous

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
  • Parent Teacher Associations (PTA)
  • School management committees

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of classrooms
  • Construction/improvement of electricity
  • Construction/improvement of libraries
  • Construction/improvement of schools

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Increased availability of Fiction/non-fiction books (unspecified)
  • Textbooks (unspecified)

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power
  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)

School-related gender-based violence

  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)

Social/gender norms change

  • Work with community leaders
  • Work with religious leaders

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general
  • Pre-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy

Water and sanitation

  • Construction/improvement of sex-specific toilets
  • Construction/improvement of toilets (combined use)
  • Improved water access

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Empowerment training
  • Leadership training
  • Self-help groups (financial, including savings and credit groups)

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased literacy
  • Increased numeracy
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased test scores
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Reduced grade repetition

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced child marriage

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Hajo Aliye
Rift Valley Children and Women Development Organization (RCWDO)
Program coordinator
hajohss3@gmail.com
+251911070746