Advancing Learning Outcomes for Transformational Change (A LOT-Change)

The A LOT-Change project is a community based after-school support program that has been running in Korogocho and Viwandani since 2013. It is born out of the need to have an intergrated approach to improve learning outcomes, psychosocial wellbeing and behaviour among adolescent girls and boys. The first phase (2013-2015) only targeted adolescent girls in grades 6-8 and comprised of homework support in numeracy and literacy, life skills mentoring, parental counseling, and transition to secondary school subsidy. From the successes of the initial phase, the intervention was scaled up in phase 2 (2016-18) to include a leadership component and also target both adolescent boys and girls, with the other components remaining the same. Phase III is a follow-up study of the phase II cohort who transitionsed to secondary school in 2019 and will be testing the feasibility of implementing the A LOT-Change model among older adolescents and also check the sustainability of the effects observed in phase II. The intervention activities include career awareness training, mentoring in soft skills, holiday homework support, digital literacy and parental counselling. In the short-term, these activities are expected to: broaden their view of prospective future career paths in different sectors and knowledge of what it takes to get there; improve their social responsibility and citizenship skills; improve soft skills knowledge among adolescent boys and girls; improve learning outcomes; enhance their knowledge and skills in the use of digital hardware and related software; and increase parental support for their children’s education.