Access to Quality Education for Children

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Key Information

The program aims to create access to quality education in for children in Raya Zebo District of the Tigray Region. It has two components: (1) Community mobilisation/sensitization about girls education and capacity building for local partners/actors and schools; and (2) Construction of schools - constructing and furnishing classrooms and creating access to toilets for girls.The key interventions are:

- Supporting girls' clubs

- Establishing safe spaces for girls in schools

- Provision of dignity kits for girls

- Capacity building training and refresher workshops

- Provision of start up capitals for saving and income generating activities.

- Construction of libraries, classrooms and girls’ rooms.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia

Activity URL

https://ethiopia.actionaid.org/

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2019 - 2019

Partner(s)

Regional Education Bureau, Schools, Parent-teacher associations

Ministry Affiliation

Women, Children and Youth Affairs Regional Offices

Funder(s)

Italian cooperation

COVID-19 Response

Not changed

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment

Other

  • Early childhood development

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • Early/child marriage
  • Empowerment
  • Female genital mutilation/cutting
  • Food/water security
  • Gender equality
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Other community members - female, Parent-teacher associations/school management committees, Youth

Age

15 - 18

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary

Other populations reached

  • Boys in school
  • Community leaders
  • Mothers
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male
  • Youth

Participants include

  • Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
  • Displaced/refugee - Internal (from other areas of the same country)

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
  • Parent Teacher Associations (PTA)

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of classrooms
  • Construction/improvement of libraries

Health and childcare services

  • Adolescent-friendly health services

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Textbooks (unspecified)

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Other

  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)
  • Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)
  • Other activities to end FGM (not captured above)

Policy/legal environment

  • Raising awareness about existing laws/policies

School-related gender-based violence

  • Safe and welcoming schools
  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)

Social/gender norms change

  • Media campaigns

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

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

Water and sanitation

  • Construction/improvement of sex-specific toilets
  • Construction/improvement of toilets (combined use)
  • Improved water access

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Empowerment training
  • Leadership training
  • Self-help groups (financial, including savings and credit groups)
  • Self-help groups (non-financial)

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
  • More equal power in relationships
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Lamrot Fikre
ActionAid International
Head of Programmes
Lamrot.fikre@actionaid.org