Tuseme Dada

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

This project aims at improving SRHR outcomes for girls and young children in Kajiado County. We have reached 550 school going girls in our activities to promote SRHR of girls and young women through provision of sexuality education, with a focus on gender sensitive approaches. We have engaged 21 stakeholders in Kajiado County, drawn from CSOs and County Government officials in the Ministry of gender, health and education. Through this project, we have mobilized male champions to take the lead in awareness raising and behavioural change to eradicate gender based violence that is rampant in Kajiado county. We have created an enabling environment through advocating for policies and legislations that promote the realization of the SRHR of girls and young women in Kajiado County and strengthened the Gender and Education TWGs at the County level to support in addressing barriers to girls’ education in the County. Further, we have been actively engaged in county policy advocacy forums to review laws that contribute towards gender sensitive planning and budgeting.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya

Activity URL

http://www.fawe.or.ke

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2021 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

The French Embassy

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 to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education

Quality

  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Gender equality
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Mentorship
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Youth

Age

9 - 19

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • Boys in school
  • Community leaders
  • School administrators
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

  • Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
  • Indigenous
  • Nomadic groups

Program Approaches Back to Top

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula

Life skills education

  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Educating girls about menstruation
  • Raising awareness about menstruation (beyond just girls)

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Peer mentors
  • Teachers as mentors

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
  • Developing/promoting new laws/policies
  • Raising awareness about existing laws/policies

School-related gender-based violence

  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)

Social/gender norms change

  • Media campaigns
  • Work with community leaders

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased secondary school enrolment

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Teresa Otieno
Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE)
CEO of FAWE Kenya
terry.otieno@fawe.or.ke