Réussite et Épanouissement via l'Apprentissage et L'Insertion au Système Éducatif (REALISE)

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

Operating in six provinces of the DRC, REALISE (which translates as 'success and fulfilment through learning') provided direct support to 69,460 vulnerable girls and their families through 455 schools and 16 alternative education institutions in community-based education centres. It also provided school supplies, and bursaries and technical support to saving and loans groups to increase families’ financial capacity to pay for girls’ education.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Activity URL

https://girlseducationchallenge.org/projects/project/reussite-et-epanouissement-via-l-apprentissage-et-l-insertion-au-systeme-educatif-realise/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2017 - 2021

Partner(s)

University of Sussex Institute of Development Studies, Congolese Women for Development, ALPKO

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

Geographic Scope

Sub-national

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary to secondary transition

Quality

  • School quality
  • School-related gender-based violence
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Teachers - female, Teachers - male

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary

Other populations reached

  • Other community members - female
  • Other community members - male

Participants include

  • Displaced/refugee - Internal (from other areas of the same country)

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Textbooks (paper)

Life skills education

  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Educating girls about menstruation
  • Sanitary product distribution

Reducing economic barriers

  • Addressing cost of school supplies
  • Reducing/eliminating school fees
  • Savings accounts
  • Vouchers/grants

Social/gender norms change

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

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

STC-DRC: General Contact Info
Save the Children
Drc.Sci@savethechildren.org