Our Right to Learn – Reaching the Unreached

Our Right to Learn – Reaching the Unreached Project aims to increase access to quality primary education for out of school children (OOSC) from resource poor households in the three counties. The project works with a total of 120 public primary schools; 45 in Kajiado (25 in Kajiado North and 20 in Mashru sub-counties), 45 in Kwale (20 in Matuga and 25 in Msambweni sub-counties) and 30 in Garissa (Balambala sub-county) counties. The project is guided by five strategies that include; 1) To promote community awareness creation via dialogues to challenge entrenched social norms and cultural practices that contribute to low enrolment and drop out. Key areas of focus include: negative attitudes and perceptions on the benefit of education particularly for the girl child, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), forced/child marriages, and child labour among others. The desired outcome at this level is change of attitude and perceptions by communities and increased communities support towards education of their children. 2) To enhance the capacity of duty bearers with a view of training them on their duties and responsibilities to enable them meet their legal obligations of enforcing implementation and monitoring of laws and policies that support enrollment and retention of OOSC as well as child protection. 3) Engendering friendliness of school environments with the aim of making them gender sensitive and attractive for girls and boys to enroll and participate in education. 4) Empower boys and girls with information on rights and life skills to enable them acquire confidence and aspiration to learn and lastly conduct policy advocacy with a view of developing policy briefs and advocacy strategies to influence policy change and actions on legal policy and frameworks that support education for OOSC.