FAWE's Gender Sensitive Schools

  • P Project/Program

A Active

Key Information

Equipping teachers with knowledge, skills and attitudes to empower them to respond adequately to the learning needs of girls and boys through using gender-aware classroom processes and practices.

Teaching quality has a significant impact on academic access, retention and performance. Yet many teachers in sub-Saharan Africa, conditioned by male-dominated values in their communities, employ teaching methods that do not provide equal opportunity to participation for girls and boys. Neither do these methods take into account the individual needs of learners, especially girls.

FAWE developed the Gender-Responsive Pedagogy (GRP) model to address the quality of teaching in African schools.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Gambia, The, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania

Activity URL

https://fawe.org/our-programmes/interventions/gender-responsive-pedagogy/#:~:text=FAWE%20developed%20the%20Gender%2DResponsive,learning%20needs%20of%20both%20sexes.

Government Affiliation

Unknown

Years

2005 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

N/A

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

  • Primary completion
  • Secondary completion

Quality

  • School quality
  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

Not applicable or unknown

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Girls in school, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

  • N/A

Program Approaches Back to Top

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Educating girls about menstruation

Teaching

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

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE)