Gender Empowerment

  • F Funding Initiative/Portfolio

A Active

Key Information

The main objective is to empower, girls women, boys and men on gender issues.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya

Activity URL

https://www.acceskenya.org/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2021 - 2030

Partner(s)

Canadian International Development Agency, Peace Rescue

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Canadian International Development Agency, ACCESS foundation

COVID-19 Response

New for COVID-19

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Post-secondary

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education

Skills

  • Civics education
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Gender equality
  • HIV and STIs
  • Mentorship
  • Sexual harassment & coercion
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

10 - 24

School Enrolment Status

Not applicable or unknown

School Level

  • Vocational
  • Tertiary

Other populations reached

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

Participants include

  • Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
  • Indigenous
  • Orphans and vulnerable children
  • People living with HIV/AIDS
  • People with disabilities

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
  • School management committees
  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments

Curriculum/learning

  • Competency-level grouping
  • Gender-sensitive curricula
  • Increased availability of learning materials

Educational Technology

  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of classrooms
  • Construction/improvement of electricity
  • Construction/improvement of libraries
  • Construction/improvement of schools

Health and childcare services

  • HIV prevention
  • Referrals to health services

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Increased availability of Fiction/non-fiction books (paper)
  • Textbooks (paper)

Learning while working

  • Apprenticeship/internship
  • Vocational training

Life skills education

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

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Educating girls about menstruation
  • Raising awareness about menstruation (beyond just girls)
  • Sanitary product distribution

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Peer mentors

Other

  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)
  • Sports programs

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
  • Public-private partnerships
  • Raising awareness about existing laws/policies

Reducing economic barriers

  • Financial literacy training
  • Income-generating activities
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees

School-related gender-based violence

  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct
  • Safe and welcoming schools
  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)

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

  • Pre-service teacher training – pedagogy general
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
  • STEM - in the classroom
  • Tutoring - general

Water and sanitation

  • Construction/improvement of sex-specific toilets

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Empowerment training
  • Self-help groups (non-financial)

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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 literacy
  • Increased numeracy
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved maternal, newborn, and/or child health (MNCH)
  • 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
  • More equal power in relationships
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced intimate partner violence
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS
  • Reduced violence against children in the home

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Anthony Mutevane
African Canadian Continuing Education Society (ACCES Kenya)
Program Director
anthony@acceskenya.org
+254720746193