Tuseme Dada
- P Project/Program
? Activity Status: Unknown
Key Information
This project aims at improving SRHR outcomes for girls and young children in Kajiado County. We have reached 550 school going girls in our activities to promote SRHR of girls and young women through provision of sexuality education, with a focus on gender sensitive approaches. We have engaged 21 stakeholders in Kajiado County, drawn from CSOs and County Government officials in the Ministry of gender, health and education. Through this project, we have mobilized male champions to take the lead in awareness raising and behavioural change to eradicate gender based violence that is rampant in Kajiado county. We have created an enabling environment through advocating for policies and legislations that promote the realization of the SRHR of girls and young women in Kajiado County and strengthened the Gender and Education TWGs at the County level to support in addressing barriers to girls’ education in the County. Further, we have been actively engaged in county policy advocacy forums to review laws that contribute towards gender sensitive planning and budgeting.
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya
Activity URL
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2021 -
Partner(s)
Not applicable or unknown
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownFunder(s)
The French Embassy
COVID-19 Response
UnknownGeographic Scope
Sub-nationalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
UnknownAreas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
- Primary completion
- Primary to secondary transition
- Secondary completion
- Secondary Enrollment
Other skills
- Life skills/sexuality education
- Rights/empowerment education
Quality
- Teacher training
Cross-cutting areas
- Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Gender equality
- Menstrual hygiene management
- Mentorship
- Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
- Social and gender norms and beliefs
Program participants
Target Audience(s)
Girls in school, Youth
Age
9 - 19
School Enrolment Status
All in school
School Level
- Upper primary
- Lower secondary
- Upper secondary
Other populations reached
- Boys in school
- Community leaders
- School administrators
- Teachers - female
- Teachers - male
Participants include
- Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
- Indigenous
- Nomadic groups
Program Approaches Back to Top
Curriculum/learning
- Gender-sensitive curricula
Life skills education
- Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
- Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building
Menstrual hygiene management
- Educating girls about menstruation
- Raising awareness about menstruation (beyond just girls)
Mentoring/psychosocial support
- Peer mentors
- Teachers as mentors
Policy/legal environment
- Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
- Developing/promoting new laws/policies
- Raising awareness about existing laws/policies
School-related gender-based violence
- Training of school personnel (including teachers)
Social/gender norms change
- Media campaigns
- Work with community leaders
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
- Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
- Increased primary school completion
- Increased progression to secondary school
- Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
- Increased school completion (general)
- Increased secondary school completion
- Increased secondary school enrolment
Cross-cutting goals
- Changed social norms
- Improved sexual and reproductive health
- Increased advocacy/civic engagement
- More equitable gender attitudes and norms
- Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Reduced child marriage
- Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
Additional Information Back to Top
Primary Contact
- Teresa Otieno
- Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE)
- CEO of FAWE Kenya
- terry.otieno@fawe.or.ke