Speed School Program

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Key Information

AOD is implementing the Speed School/Accelerated Learning Community Outreach education program. The Speed School program – targets 3300 out-of-school children aged 9 to 14. 

ODA has been striving to contribute towards addressing the AYSRH challenges through its school-based intervention where it support interventions including gender-responsive teaching-learning pedagogy, provision of comprehensive AYSRH messages, creating linkages with public health facilities for the provision of youth-friendly SRH services, and engaging stakeholders and the community to address the socio-economic and reproductive health needs of young people. In this regard, schools are supported to implement gender-responsive teaching and learning approaches and comprehensive AYSRH information mainstreamed into the curricula. Public health centers are engaged to provide youth-friendly services and increased community support obtained in addressing the socio-economic and RH needs of adolescents and youth, including girls. The project has renovated 48 sanitary management corners in 24  AYSR intervention schools and constructed 51 youth centers and equipped with necessary materials that enable young people to enjoy reading, playing games, and generate income 
 

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia

Activity URL

https://www.eccnetwork.net/sites/default/files/media/file/Panel-2-JL-Geneva-Global-S-Schools_0.pdf

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2020 -

Partner(s)

Oromia Bureau of Education, Oromia Bureau of Women Children and Youth Affairs, Schools

Ministry Affiliation

Education Bureau, Oromia and

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

Other

  • Early childhood development
  • Transition from school to work

Other skills

  • Financial literacy
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • School facilities
  • School quality
  • School-related gender-based violence
  • School violence
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Civics education
  • Literacy
  • Other academic performance-related
  • STEM

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
  • Food/water security
  • Gender equality
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Nutrition
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Sexual harassment & coercion
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Boys out of school, Community leaders, Fathers, Girls (both in school and out of school), Girls out of school, Other caregivers, Other community members - female, Other community members - male, Parent-teacher associations/school management committees, Religious leaders, School administrators, Teachers - female, Teachers - male, Youth

Age

9 - 15

School Enrolment Status

All out of school

School Level

  • Pre-school
  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational
  • Tertiary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

  • Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
  • Displaced/refugee - Internal (from other areas of the same country)
  • Homeless/street children
  • Indigenous
  • Internal migrants (from other areas of the same country)
  • Orphans and vulnerable children
  • People living with HIV/AIDS
  • People with disabilities

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
  • Parent Teacher Associations (PTA)
  • School management committees

Curriculum/learning

  • Competency-level grouping
  • Gender-sensitive curricula
  • Increased availability of learning materials
  • Remedial education/skills

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of classrooms
  • Construction/improvement of schools

Food/nutrition

  • Food for peace/relief
  • School feeding

Health and childcare services

  • Adolescent-friendly health services
  • HIV prevention
  • HIV treatment and care
  • Maternal and child health services
  • Referrals to health services
  • School-based clinics

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Textbooks (digital)
  • Textbooks (unspecified)

Life skills education

  • Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)
  • Gender, rights and power

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Sanitary product distribution

Other

  • Coordinated Action
  • 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)

Reducing economic barriers

  • Addressing cost of school supplies
  • Conditional cash transfers (including non-cash goods) to individuals/households
  • Conditional cash transfers to schools
  • Financial literacy training
  • Microcredit
  • Reducing/eliminating school fees
  • Savings accounts
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees
  • Unconditional cash transfers to schools
  • Uniforms

School-related gender-based violence

  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct
  • Safe and welcoming schools
  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)
  • Violence prevention curriculum/activities for students

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Media campaigns
  • Work with community leaders
  • Work with religious leaders

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general
  • Pre-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • Pre-service teacher training – pedagogy general
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)

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

  • Education sector plans, budgets, policies, and data systems are more gender-equitable
  • Gender parity and non-discrimination are promoted at all subjects/education levels
  • Improved critical thinking
  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased literacy

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved maternal, newborn, and/or child health (MNCH)
  • Improved nutrition
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equal power in relationships
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced intimate partner violence
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS
  • Reduced violence against children in the home

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Kalid Ali
Oromia Development Association (ODA)
DED and Operation Division Manager
kalwijdan03@gmail.com
+251911245000