Strengthening Higher Education Access in Malawi Activity (SHEAMA)

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Key Information

Each year, more than 80,000 secondary school students in Malawi face economic and social impediments that prevent them from accessing higher education to obtain the skills needed for jobs and business ownership. In response, government, universities and international donors are forming partnerships to create innovative approaches that extend higher education opportunities to youth in more impoverished rural communities. The Strengthening Higher Education Access in Malawi Activity (SHEAMA) is a four-year, USAID-funded project to increase Malawi’s skilled and employable workforce, with a particular focus on rural adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) and vulnerable young men.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Malawi

Activity URL

https://winrock.org/project/growing-malawis-skilled-workforce/

Government Affiliation

Unknown

Years

2019 - 2022

Partner(s)

Arizona State University

Ministry Affiliation

N/A

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Post-secondary
  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other

  • Remote Learning
  • Transition from school to work

Other skills

  • Financial literacy
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning
  • Vocational training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls out of school, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All out of school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational

Other populations reached

  • Boys out of school

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools

Learning while working

  • Vocational training

Life skills education

  • Negotiation skills

Other

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

Reducing economic barriers

  • Income-generating activities

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training
  • Self-help groups (financial, including savings and credit groups)

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased secondary school enrolment

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Increased employment/job-related skills

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Martha Saldinger
Winrock International
Director, Education & Empowerment
msaldinger@winrock.org