La Escuela es Nuestra

  • P Project/Program

A Active

Key Information

La Escuela es Nuestra or School is Ours is a program that promotes the participation of school community under the creation of specialized school committees. The main objective is "through the School Committee for Participatory Administration, improve the conditions of physical infrastructure, equipment, and educational materials to support public educational institutions at the early childhood, preschool, primary, and secondary levels in their various modalities, as well as the learning communities of CONAFE (National Council for the Promotion of Education) for the benefit of girls, boys, and adolescents." In the rules of operation, the evaluation section specifically mentions that the General Directorate of "School is Ours" can create an internal evaluation procedure for the program, and that in these evaluations, "specific indicators must be incorporated to allow the evaluation of the incidence of budget programs on equality between women and men, the prevention of gender violence and of any form of discrimination based on gender, disability, ethnic origin, or other forms."


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Mexico

Location(s)

Latin America & Caribbean

Mexico

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2019 - 2024

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Public Education (Secretaría de Educación Pública)

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Quality

  • School facilities
  • School quality

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • Gender equality

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Parent-teacher associations/school management committees, School administrators

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Population of interest is not school-aged

School Level

  • N/A

Other populations reached

  • Fathers
  • Mothers
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Extending school hours

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
  • School management committees

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of classrooms
  • Construction/improvement of schools

Food/nutrition

  • Community food production

Reducing economic barriers

  • Vouchers/grants

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms