Leadership Academies for Girls
- P Project/Program
A Active
Key Information
Through two leadership academies for girls, SHOFCO aims to create female leaders who have experienced slum-life and marginalization first-hand who will become advocates for their communities. SHOFCO's tuition-free leadership academies, located in Kibera and Mathare in Nairobi, work with 547 students who receive high-quality education from pre-kindergarten through the 8th grade. Every student receives healthcare, meals, uniforms and school supplies. Another 42 students are receiving free high quality secondary education in top boarding schools in Kenya and the United States.
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2009 - 2030
Partner(s)
Not applicable or unknown
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownFunder(s)
Not applicable or unknown
COVID-19 Response
UnknownGeographic Scope
NationalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
UnknownAreas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
- Post-secondary
- Primary completion
- Primary enrollment
- Primary to secondary transition
- Secondary completion
- Secondary Enrollment
Other
- Early childhood development
Other skills
- Life skills/sexuality education
- Rights/empowerment education
Quality
- School facilities
- School quality
Skills
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Other academic performance-related
- STEM
Cross-cutting areas
- Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Community sensitization
- Early/child marriage
- Empowerment
- Food/water security
- Gender equality
- HIV and STIs
- Menstrual hygiene management
- Mentorship
- Nutrition
- Social and gender norms and beliefs
- Violence (at home, in relationships)
- WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)
Program participants
Other populations reached
- Community leaders
- Mothers
- Other caregivers
- Other family members
- Parent-teacher associations/school management committees
- School administrators
- Teachers - female
- Teachers - male
Participants include
- Orphans and vulnerable children
Program Approaches Back to Top
Access to school
- Expanding boarding opportunities
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
- Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
- Parent Teacher Associations (PTA)
- School management committees
Curriculum/learning
- Increased availability of learning materials
Educational Technology
- Computer-assisted learning
- Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
- Digital learning materials/programs
- Digital reading materials (non-textbook)
Facilities construction/improvement
- Construction/improvement of classrooms
- Construction/improvement of libraries
- Construction/improvement of schools
Food/nutrition
- Deworming
- School feeding
Health and childcare services
- HIV prevention
- HIV treatment and care
- Referrals to health services
- School-based clinics
- Sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning)
Increased availability of learning materials
- Increased availability of Art supplies
- Increased availability of Math materials (rulers, protractors, calculators, etc.)
- Increased availability of Writing materials
- Textbooks (digital)
- Textbooks (paper)
Life skills education
- Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)
- Gender, rights and power
- Negotiation skills
- 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
- Adult (non-teacher) mentors
- School-based counselors
- Teachers as mentors
Other
- Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)
Policy/legal environment
- Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
- Public-private partnerships
Reducing economic barriers
- Addressing cost of school supplies
- Reducing/eliminating school fees
- Scholarships/stipends for school fees
- Uniforms
School-related gender-based violence
- Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct
- Safe and welcoming schools
- Safe channels/mechanisms for reporting violence
- Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
- 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
- Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents
- Media campaigns
- Work with community leaders
Teaching
- Hiring more teachers (both men and women)
- Pre-service teacher training – pedagogy general
- Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)
Tutoring/strengthening academic skills
- Literacy - in the classroom
- Numeracy - in the classroom
- STEM - outside the classroom
- Tutoring - general
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 (financial, including savings and credit groups)
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
- Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
- Improved critical thinking
- Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
- Increased enrolment in primary school
- Increased grade attainment
- 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
- Reduced absenteeism
Cross-cutting goals
- Changed social norms
- Improved critical consciousness
- Improved health - other
- Improved mental health
- Improved nutrition
- Increased agency and empowerment
- Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
- Increased knowledge of rights
- Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
- Reduced violence against children in the home