Jam Suka

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

Jam Suka establishes child rights clubs called “Children’s Parliaments” in schools to teach children about their rights and how they can advocate for themselves. The Children’s Parliaments are matched with trained teachers who support participants and boost their voice. These clubs help sensitize their communities through public performances that teach parents and elders about the importance of children’s rights, including the value of education, the dangers of child labour, and girls’ rights to be free from mistreatment.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Mali

Activity URL

https://righttoplayusa.org/en/news/staying-strong-despite-crisis-in-mali/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2012 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans

Skills

  • Civics education

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Other cultural practices
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • 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

5 - 18

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

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

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula
  • Increased availability of learning materials

Educational Technology

  • Digital learning materials/programs

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Other

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

School-related gender-based violence

  • Safe channels/mechanisms for reporting violence
  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)

Social/gender norms change

  • Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Media campaigns

Teaching

  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Empowerment training
  • Self-help groups (non-financial)

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equal power in relationships
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Brijpal Patel
Right to Play
Director, Global Program Development
bpatel@righttoplay.com