Girls' Education Program (EDA)

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Key Information

The girls’ Education support aims to improve the learning opportunities and outcomes for about 10,000 most marginalized girls in ‘Minjar Shenkora woreda’ (administrative area). Access to a good quality education will give these girls the chance of a better future for themselves, their families and their communities. 
The project employs an innovative approach to improve girls‘ acadmic performance, dropout rate, girls‘ retention,  and low awareness of the community towards girls‘ education and their participation by involving all the key stakeholders: school teachers, directors,  parents, community leaders, community based organizations, alumnus girls and others through periodic community dialogues, trainings, girls mentorship and review meetings. A new ‘’mentorship service’ strategy is introduced for the primary school girls who have various education challenges from their communities/families/ and who are in need of close follow-up. In the first year approximately 300 girls will get mentorship service. Selection of needy girls will be made by the school teachers and directors in close cooperation with EDA and school management committees. The numbers of girls to be involved in mentorship service will be increased to 500 in the second and third year. The volunteer mentors will support the girls through telephone, scheduled meetings with the girls, their parents, and their teachers. These interventions are expected to minimize girls’ absenteeism and dropout, improve girls’ completion rate, and enhance their education performance.    

  
The main project interventions area:
•    Support 3000 girls from very poor families with 600 educational materials in 15 target schools.  
•    Conduct 16 life skill trainings for 500 girls in the target 15 schools. 
•    Support 124,000 sanitary materials for selected 500 target girls 
•    Renovate 30 latrines for school girls in 10 target primary schools
•    Conduct 112 awareness meetings for 500 boys on gender issue
•    Establish 25 child right clubs and train 60 leaders on child right issues. 
•    Organize 18 community dialogues on girls’ education in 15 schools
•    Organize 18 capacity building trainings for 150 school leaders on leadership and school governance. 
•    Support 500 parents/guardians/ with seed money and business skill training. 
•    Conduct mentorship training for 190 volunteer mentors. 
 


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2018 - 2023

Partner(s)

Schools, Local administration, Education offices, Community members

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Bread for the world, Protestant Agency for Diakonia and Development (PADD), CCFC/CB

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

Geographic Scope

National

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas


Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Mothers, Other community members - female, Parent-teacher associations/school management committees, School administrators, Teachers - female, Youth

Age

7 - 35

School Enrolment Status

All out of school

School Level

  • Pre-school
  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Vocational

Other populations reached

  • Community leaders
  • Fathers
  • Other community members - male
  • Other family members

Participants include

  • Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
  • Displaced/refugee - External (from other countries)
  • Displaced/refugee - Internal (from other areas of the same country)
  • Homeless/street children
  • Internal migrants (from other areas of the same country)
  • Migrants from other countries
  • Nomadic groups
  • Orphans and vulnerable children
  • People living with HIV/AIDS
  • People with disabilities

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
  • Mothers' clubs
  • Parent Teacher Associations (PTA)
  • School management committees
  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula
  • Increased availability of learning materials

Educational Technology

  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital learning materials/programs

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of classrooms
  • Construction/improvement of electricity
  • Construction/improvement of libraries
  • Construction/improvement of schools

Food/nutrition

  • School feeding

Health and childcare services

  • Adolescent-friendly health services
  • HIV prevention
  • HIV treatment and care
  • Maternal and child health services
  • Providing childcare for young mothers
  • Referrals to health services
  • School-based clinics
  • Sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning)

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Textbooks (paper)
  • Textbooks (unspecified)

Life skills education

  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Educating girls about menstruation
  • Raising awareness about menstruation (beyond just girls)
  • Sanitary product distribution

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Peer mentors
  • School-based counselors
  • Teachers as mentors

Other

  • Informational interventions (e.g. returns to education)
  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)
  • Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)

Policy/legal environment

  • Public-private partnerships
  • System-wide review and reform

Reducing economic barriers

  • Financial literacy training
  • Income-generating activities
  • Microcredit
  • Savings accounts
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees

School-related gender-based violence

  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct
  • Safe and welcoming schools
  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)
  • Violence prevention curriculum/activities for students

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Work with community leaders
  • Work with religious leaders

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Literacy - outside the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - outside the classroom
  • STEM - in the classroom
  • Tutoring - general

Water and sanitation

  • Construction/improvement of sex-specific toilets
  • Construction/improvement of toilets (combined use)
  • Improved water access

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Self-help groups (financial, including savings and credit groups)
  • Self-help groups (non-financial)

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased literacy
  • Increased numeracy
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased test scores
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Reduced grade repetition

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved maternal, newborn, and/or child health (MNCH)
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equal power in relationships
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced intimate partner violence
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS
  • Reduced violence against children in the home

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Tessema Bekele (PhD)
Emmanuel Development Association (EDA)
Executive Director
tessema.bekele@edaethiopia.org
+251911226260