Wing Schools

  • P Project/Program

A Active

Key Information

The wing school project was established to address the problem that many rural communities in northern Ghana do not have access to a primary school nearby, which prevents many children from attending school. A wing school is designed to operate as a wing or an extension of an existing formal public school, which then maintains some supervisory and administrative responsibility for the wing school. The wing school initiative reaches the children living in educationally hard-to-reach communities. It delivers a proven educational and pedagogical package of learner-centred and gender-responsive education with mother-tongue instruction to children from age 4-9 (and occasionally, above age 9).

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Ghana

Activity URL

https://www.ecpihub.com/wing-schools#:~:text=The%20wing%20school%20project%20was,many%20children%20from%20attending%20school.

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2007 -

Partner(s)

Alliance for Change in Education

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

Sub-national

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School facilities
  • School quality
  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • 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

4 - 9

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary

Other populations reached

  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization
  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of schools

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Textbooks (unspecified)

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Teachers as mentors

Teaching

  • Hiring more teachers (both men and women)
  • 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

Women's empowerment programs

  • Leadership training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Curricula, teaching and learning materials are free of gender-bias and stereotypes
  • Gender parity and non-discrimination are promoted at all subjects/education levels
  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Teachers and learners have the knowledge and skills to promote gender equality

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced child marriage