Educate! Education System Solution

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Key Information

We partner with governments to scale and sustain our core learning experience by integrating its key components and pedagogy into national education systems. An RCT of our education systems change approach, which included national curriculum reform supported by a two-year teacher training model, showed that by improving teacher pedagogy, we can effectively increase youth business ownership, build key skills, and increase university access for young women, as assessed just 6 months after graduation.

 

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya, Rwanda, United Republic of Tanzania

Activity URL

https://www.experienceeducate.org

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2015 -

Partner(s)

Schools and governments in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Tanzania

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Secondary completion

Other

  • Other
  • Transition from school to work

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School quality
  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Climate change
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Mentorship
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Girls in school, Youth

Age

14 - 20

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • Community leaders
  • Other family members
  • School administrators
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
  • Community mobilization

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Textbooks (paper)

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Peer mentors

Other

  • Informational interventions (e.g. returns to education)

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
  • Developing/promoting new laws/policies
  • Public-private partnerships
  • System-wide review and reform

Reducing economic barriers

  • Income-generating activities

School-related gender-based violence

  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)

Social/gender norms change

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

Teaching

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

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • STEM - in the classroom

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training
  • Leadership training

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased secondary school enrolment
  • Increased test scores

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • More equal power in relationships
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)