Tanzania Secondary Education Quality Improvement Project (SEQUIP)

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Key Information

The development objective of Secondary Education Quality Improvement Project for Tanzania is to increase access to secondary education, provide responsive learning environments for girls, and improve completion of quality secondary education for girls and boys. This project has four components. 1) The first component, Empowering Girls through Secondary Education and Life Skills, aims to support a set of results and DLIs that aim to improve access to safe secondary education opportunities in schools and alternative education centers and support girls to continue and complete their secondary schooling. It has the following two subcomponents: (i) creating a safe learning environment for students in schools; and (ii) promoting girls’ completion of secondary education through quality alternative education pathways. 2) The second component, Digitally-Enabled Effective Teaching and Learning, aims to support a set of results and DLIs that aim to improve teaching and learning in secondary education. It has the following two subcomponents: (i) Digitally-Enabled Effective Teaching and Learning; and (ii) Adoption of digitally-enabled teaching of Mathematics and Science. 3) The third component, Reducing Barriers to Girls’ Education through Facilitating Access to Secondary Schools, aims to support a set of results and DLIs focused on enhancing infrastructure standards in secondary schools and to ensure adequate funding of key inputs as secondary schooling expands. 4) The fourth component, Project Coordination, Monitoring and Evaluation, aims to provide support to reinforce existing capacity, inform education planning and policy decision making and implementation of key project activities.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

United Republic of Tanzania

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

United Republic of Tanzania

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2020 - 2026

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, President's Office, Regional; Administration and Local Government

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment

Skills

  • STEM

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Community sensitization
  • Digital literacy
  • Early/child marriage
  • Gender equality

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

  • Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)

Program Approaches Back to Top

Curriculum/learning

  • Remedial education/skills

Educational Technology

  • Digital learning materials/programs

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of classrooms

School-related gender-based violence

  • Safe and welcoming schools

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Gender parity and non-discrimination are promoted at all subjects/education levels
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Teachers and learners have the knowledge and skills to promote gender equality

Cross-cutting goals

  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing