Education and Mentorship
- P Project/Program
A Active
Key Information
Education and Mentorship is a program of Miss Koch Kenya which aims at enhancing accessibility to quality education and facilitating best academic and extracurricular performance among the needy children in the informal settlements of Nairobi.
The program seeks to improve accessibility to quality education for some high achieving vulnerable girls and children through undertaking interventions that deliver the rights of the child, find bursary support for as many girls and boys as possible needing scholarships, providing holistic care and mentor-ship packages around scholarship, the provision of holiday and after-school learning and support, counseling, life skills, advise on SRH, entrepreneurship and ICT skills and developing more and better trained mentors to guide, counsel and support those on scholarship. It is through the scholarship arm that the community is aware of the need to support its constituency through providing scholarship to high achieving and vulnerable youth whose parents may not be in a position to take them through 4 year secondary education.
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya
Activity URL
Not applicable or unknown
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2003 - 2030
Partner(s)
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownFunder(s)
- African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)
- Grassroots Nest for Innovations and Change (GRIC - AFRICA)
HP Dawda Foundation, Atari Gaming
COVID-19 Response
AdaptedGeographic Scope
NationalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
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Education areas
Attainment
- Primary completion
- Primary to secondary transition
- Secondary completion
- Secondary Enrollment
Other
- Transition from school to work
Other skills
- Life skills/sexuality education
- Rights/empowerment education
Skills
- Civics education
- Literacy
- Numeracy
Cross-cutting areas
- Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Community sensitization
- Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
- Food/water security
- Gender equality
- HIV and STIs
- Masculinities/boys
- Menstrual hygiene management
- Mentorship
- Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
Program participants
Target Audience(s)
Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Parent-teacher associations/school management committees, Teachers - female, Youth
Age
12 - 19
School Enrolment Status
Some in school
School Level
- Pre-school
- Upper primary
- Lower secondary
- Upper secondary
- Tertiary
Other populations reached
- Community leaders
- Fathers
- Other community members - male
- School administrators
- Teachers - male
Participants include
- Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
Program Approaches Back to Top
Access to school
- Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
- Community mobilization
- General awareness-raising/community engagement
- School management committees
Educational Technology
- Computer-assisted learning
- Digital reading materials (non-textbook)
Facilities construction/improvement
- Construction/improvement of classrooms
- Construction/improvement of schools
Increased availability of learning materials
- Increased availability of Fiction/non-fiction books (unspecified)
- Textbooks (paper)
Life skills education
- Gender, rights and power
- Negotiation skills
- Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
- Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building
Mentoring/psychosocial support
- Peer mentors
- Teachers as mentors
Policy/legal environment
- Public-private partnerships
Reducing economic barriers
- Scholarships/stipends for school fees
Teaching
- Hiring more female teachers
- Teacher incentives
Water and sanitation
- Construction/improvement of toilets (combined use)
- Improved water access
Women's empowerment programs
- Advocacy/action
- Empowerment training
- Leadership training
- Self-help groups (non-financial)
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
- Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
- Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
- Increased literacy
- Increased numeracy
- Increased primary school completion
- Increased progression to secondary school
- Increased school completion (general)
- Increased school enrolment (general)
- Increased secondary school completion
- Increased secondary school enrolment
- Reduced absenteeism
Cross-cutting goals
- Changed social norms
- Improved critical consciousness
- Improved mental health
- Improved sexual and reproductive health
- Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
- Increased advocacy/civic engagement
- Increased employment/job-related skills
- Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
- Increased knowledge of rights
- Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
Additional Information Back to Top
Primary Contact
- Miss Koch Kenya
- Chief Executive Officer
- emmie.erondanga@misskoch.org