Out-of-School Girls' Empowerment Program
- P Project/Program
A Active
Key Information
The program equips women and out-of-school girls in Kenya’s poorest communities with basic literacy skills to improve their lives and communities. It also focuses on investing in women and girls leading to improvement in health, livelihood, and environment. In our technology-driven world, those without literacy skills are not left behind. This program solves this by targeting women and girls who are largely overlooked by traditional education programs. Literacy instruction is blend of in person and self-directed instruction.
Out-of-School girls are disadvantaged when it comes to accessing functional education due to social exclusiveness. As such, we incorporate simple technology into existing adult literacy programs, where the target group is equipped with foundational literacy skills and knowledge to improve their lives, and the ability to navigate technology necessary to enter the workforce or enroll in vocational programs.
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2020 - 2025
Partner(s)
Not applicable or unknown
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownFunder(s)
Not applicable or unknown
COVID-19 Response
AdaptedGeographic Scope
NationalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
UnknownAreas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
- Post-secondary
Other
- Remote Learning
Other skills
- Financial literacy
- Life skills/sexuality education
- Rights/empowerment education
- Social and emotional learning
- Vocational training
Skills
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Other academic performance-related
Cross-cutting areas
- Community sensitization
- Digital literacy
- Early/child marriage
- Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
- Empowerment
- Food/water security
- Menstrual hygiene management
- Mentorship
- Nutrition
- Other cultural practices
- Social and gender norms and beliefs
- Violence (at home, in relationships)
Program participants
Other populations reached
- Community leaders
Participants include
- Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
- Displaced/refugee - Internal (from other areas of the same country)
- Homeless/street children
- Indigenous
- Nomadic groups
- Orphans and vulnerable children
- People living with HIV/AIDS
- People with disabilities
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
- Mothers' clubs
Curriculum/learning
- Gender-sensitive curricula
- Increased availability of learning materials
- Remedial education/skills
Educational Technology
- Computer-assisted learning
- Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
- Digital learning materials/programs
- Digital reading materials (non-textbook)
- Digital skills/literacy (including coding)
- Online training
Facilities construction/improvement
- Construction/improvement of libraries
Food/nutrition
- Community food production
- Food for peace/relief
Health and childcare services
- Adolescent-friendly health services
- HIV prevention
- HIV treatment and care
- Malaria prevention
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 Math materials (rulers, protractors, calculators, etc.)
- Increased availability of Writing materials
- Textbooks (digital)
- Textbooks (paper)
Learning while working
- Apprenticeship/internship
- Vocational training
- Work-study
Life skills education
- Gender, rights and power
- Negotiation skills
- Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
- Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building
Menstrual hygiene management
- Educating girls about menstruation
- Raising awareness about menstruation (beyond just girls)
Mentoring/psychosocial support
- Adult (non-teacher) mentors
- Peer mentors
- School-based counselors
- Teachers as mentors
Other
- Informational interventions (e.g. returns to education)
- Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)
- Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)
Policy/legal environment
- Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
- Developing/promoting new laws/policies
- Public-private partnerships
- Raising awareness about existing laws/policies
- System-wide review and reform
Reducing economic barriers
- Financial literacy training
- Income-generating activities
- Microcredit
School-related gender-based violence
- Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct
- Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
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
- Work with religious leaders
Teaching
- Diagnostic feedback
Tutoring/strengthening academic skills
- Literacy - outside the classroom
- Numeracy - outside the classroom
Women's empowerment programs
- Advocacy/action
- Empowerment training
- Leadership training
- Self-help groups (financial, including savings and credit groups)
- Self-help groups (non-financial)
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 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
- Increased test scores
- Increased years of schooling
- Reduced absenteeism
- Reduced grade repetition
Cross-cutting goals
- Changed social norms
- Improved critical consciousness
- Improved financial literacy and savings
- Improved health - other
- Improved mental health
- Improved nutrition
- Improved sexual and reproductive health
- Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
- Increased advocacy/civic engagement
- Increased agency and empowerment
- Increased employment/job-related skills
- Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
- Increased knowledge of rights
Additional Information Back to Top
Primary Contact
- Solomon Kamau
- Kenya Adult Learners' Association (KALA)
- Programs Manager
- solo.mburu@gmail.com