Education Program

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Key Information

The major focus this program is to give education to girls escaping female genital mutilation and forced early marriage by supporting their access to boarding primary or high school. 

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya

Activity URL

https://missionwithavision.net

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2014 - 2030

Partner(s)

Narok Children's Home

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Bushenyi Alliance for Rural Health and Development, Cedarburg United Methodist Church- Wisconsin, First Congregational Church of Plymouth, United Methodist Church, Kenya education fund (KEF), Kenya Airways, Mission Direct, Moody Methodist Permanent Endowment Fund, Ovenden St Georges Church, Terryville Congregational Church, Peace Corps, Centre for Rights Education And Awareness, Bushenji Alliance for Rural Development

COVID-19 Response

Not changed

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
  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other skills

  • Financial literacy
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Community sensitization
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Female genital mutilation/cutting
  • Gender equality
  • HIV and STIs
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Mentorship
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Other cultural practices
  • Sexual harassment & coercion
  • Sports

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

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

Age

9 - 24

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational
  • Tertiary

Other populations reached

  • Boys (both in school and out of school)
  • Community leaders
  • Mothers
  • Other caregivers
  • Other community members - female
  • Other community members - male
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

  • Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
  • Indigenous
  • Nomadic groups
  • Orphans and vulnerable children

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of schools

Food/nutrition

  • Community food production
  • Deworming

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Increased availability of Art supplies
  • Increased availability of Fiction/non-fiction books (digital)
  • Increased availability of Fiction/non-fiction books (paper)
  • Increased availability of Fiction/non-fiction books (unspecified)
  • Increased availability of Math materials (rulers, protractors, calculators, etc.)
  • Increased availability of Writing materials
  • Textbooks (digital)
  • Textbooks (paper)

Life skills education

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

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Educating girls about menstruation
  • Raising awareness about menstruation (beyond just girls)
  • Sanitary product distribution

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Peer mentors
  • Teachers as mentors

Other

  • 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

  • Conditional cash transfers (including non-cash goods) to individuals/households
  • Conditional cash transfers to schools
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees
  • Unconditional cash transfers (including non-cash goods) to individuals/households
  • Unconditional cash transfers to schools

Social/gender norms change

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

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Literacy - outside the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - outside the classroom

Water and sanitation

  • Construction/improvement of sex-specific toilets

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased literacy
  • Increased numeracy
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased secondary school enrolment
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS