Aflateen+: Life Skills and Financial Education through a Gender Lens in Uganda

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Key Information

Aflatoun International with its national partners are implementing the Aflateen+ programme in over 30 schools in about 5 districts in Uganda. Aflateen+ is a powerful educational programme which aims to transform the lives of adolescents aged between 14-18 years by economically empowering participants to enable them to fully exercise their citizenship rights through life skills, financial education, sexual reproductive health and rights and entrepreneurship with a gender lens. The overall objective of the project is to empower young people in Uganda with life skills and financial education to get along and get ahead in life. They learn about human rights, sexual and reproductive health and making informed life choices around their own education, career, finances, health, marriage and children. The implementation of the Aflateen+ curriculum is expected to result in notable outcomes that include: increased self-efficacy, improved critical thinking on gender roles, increased financial knowledge, increased healthy decision making in relationships, increased sexual and reproductive health and rights, improved entrepreneurial attitudes among others.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Uganda

Activity URL

Not applicable or unknown

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2019 - 2020

Partner(s)

The Private Education Development Network, I profile foundation, Network of active citizens, Children of Uganda, Youth line forum, Strengthening Hope and Resilience Empowerment. Hope of working Children and youth, Girls in Red

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Stitching Dioraphte

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Post-secondary
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion

Other skills

  • Financial literacy
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Civics education

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • HIV and STIs
  • Masculinities/boys
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Sexual harassment & coercion
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Girls in school, Youth

Age

12 - 19

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Life skills education

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

Reducing economic barriers

  • Financial literacy training
  • Income-generating activities

School-related gender-based violence

  • Safe channels/mechanisms for reporting violence
  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)
  • Violence prevention curriculum/activities for students

Social/gender norms change

  • Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training
  • Self-help groups (financial, including savings and credit groups)

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equal power in relationships
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced intimate partner violence
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Philomena Kafui Darku
Aflatoun International
Project Officer
Philomena@aflatoun.org
+31206262025