Empowerment of Women and Girls

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Key Information

This is a project in the Education sector. The project aims to: Strengthen the social actions of women and girls with and without disabilities against gender inequality and gender-based violence; Improve equal access to secondary education, including vocational education, for women and girls with and without disabilities; Improve livelihood opportunities for women and girls with and without disabilities; Mobilization and promotion of education authorities at provincial, district and school level, elementary school teachers, women's organizations, community in general.

The project is operating in Maputo Province, covering two districts, namely Manhiça and Marracuene. The activities will take place in 10 locations, including 6 in Marracuene and 4 in Manhiça.

The plan consists of training 9,000 girls/women in dressmaking, agriculture and entrepreneurship over a period of 3 years. Each year, 3,000 girls/young women will be trained. The project will train 2,600 men and boys, as well as teachers and school managers, community and traditional leaders, civil society organizations, to be activists and advocates on gender equality and human rights. The project will mobilize around 50,000 community members through public campaigns over 3 years, i.e. 17,000 community members will be reached each year, which corresponds to 8,500 per district each year.

The courses will be taught by a trainer from each locality and 1 district trainer will work on specific courses in financial literacy, entrepreneurship and the use of digital platforms called APTUS, which will be provided by COL. The course will take place once a week, lasting 2 hours a day.

The project will collaborate with local education authorities and distance learning Secondary Schools to ensure the enrolment of girls/women attending distance learning or returning to school. As a way of creating a better environment for girls at school, the project will coordinate with the local education authorities and create synergy with the Viva+ project to use the existing system to retain girls at school. The project will work with the school corners, which serve as a safe space for counselling and reporting violations.

The activities are done in strong collaboration with the Provincial Department of Education, Health, Gender and Human Development. 

The project will have Project Coordinator/team leader, 1 M&A, 1 Gender Officer, 2 Master Trainers, 10 Local Trainers, 1 Financial Manager.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Mozambique

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2023 - 2025

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education and Human Development, Ministry of Gender and Health

COVID-19 Response

Not changed

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Yes

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other skills

  • Financial literacy
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Vocational training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Climate change
  • Community sensitization
  • Digital literacy
  • Early/child marriage
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Community leaders, Other caregivers, Parent-teacher associations/school management committees, School administrators

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational

Other populations reached

  • Boys (both in school and out of school)
  • Girls (both in school and out of school)
  • Other community members - female
  • Other community members - male
  • Policymakers
  • Youth

Participants include

  • Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
  • People with disabilities

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
  • School management committees

Curriculum/learning

  • Remedial education/skills

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased secondary school enrolment
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Teachers and learners have the knowledge and skills to promote gender equality

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Improved health - other
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced child marriage