Safe and Nurturing Schools

  • P Project/Program

I Inactive

Key Information

World Vision’s Safe and Nurturing Schools approach responds to and prevents school-related violence, working to create a positive school environment in which all children are able to fully develop their academic skills as well as increase the emotional confidence they require to thrive within their communities. This evidence-based project model, focuses on children in early adolescence, works across all levels of the ecology: with adolescents themselves, the school, the community—including faith leaders—and the government to ensure schools are safe. The program uses a gender transformative approach with the purpose of examining and redressing some of the root-causes (and several risk-factors) for violence against girls and boys. The project model has three key components: girls' and boys' groups, teacher training and support, and community engagement and social accountability.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://www.wvi.org/education-and-life-skills/publication/safe-and-nurturing-schools

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2017 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education

Quality

  • School-related gender-based violence

Cross-cutting areas

  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

11 - 18

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

Not applicable or unknown

Other populations reached

  • Community leaders
  • Fathers
  • Mothers
  • Other caregivers
  • Other community members - female
  • Other community members - male
  • Religious leaders
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

  • Displaced/refugee - External (from other countries)
  • Displaced/refugee - Internal (from other areas of the same country)
  • Indigenous
  • People with disabilities

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula

Life skills education

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

Other

  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)

School-related gender-based violence

  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct
  • Violence prevention curriculum/activities for students

Social/gender norms change

  • Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

Not applicable or unknown

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved critical consciousness
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
  • Reduced violence against children in the home