Education and Mentorship

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Key Information

Education and Mentorship is a program of Miss Koch Kenya which aims at enhancing accessibility to quality education and facilitating best academic and extracurricular performance among the needy children in the informal settlements of Nairobi.

The program seeks to improve accessibility to quality education for some high achieving vulnerable girls and children through undertaking interventions that deliver the rights of the child, find bursary support for as many girls and boys as possible needing scholarships, providing holistic care and mentor-ship packages around scholarship, the provision of holiday and after-school learning and support, counseling, life skills, advise on SRH, entrepreneurship and ICT skills and developing more and better trained mentors to guide, counsel and support those on scholarship. It is through the scholarship arm that the community is aware of the need to support its constituency through providing scholarship to high achieving and vulnerable youth whose parents may not be in a position to take them through 4 year secondary education.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya

Activity URL

Not applicable or unknown

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2003 - 2030

Ministry Affiliation

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

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other

  • Transition from school to work

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education

Skills

  • Civics education
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Community sensitization
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Food/water security
  • Gender equality
  • HIV and STIs
  • Masculinities/boys
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Mentorship
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Parent-teacher associations/school management committees, Teachers - female, Youth

Age

12 - 19

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

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

Other populations reached

  • Community leaders
  • Fathers
  • Other community members - male
  • School administrators
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

  • Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
  • School management committees

Educational Technology

  • Computer-assisted learning
  • Digital reading materials (non-textbook)

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of classrooms
  • Construction/improvement of schools

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Increased availability of Fiction/non-fiction books (unspecified)
  • Textbooks (paper)

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power
  • Negotiation skills
  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Peer mentors
  • Teachers as mentors

Policy/legal environment

  • Public-private partnerships

Reducing economic barriers

  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees

Teaching

  • Hiring more female teachers
  • Teacher incentives

Water and sanitation

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

Women's empowerment programs

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

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased literacy
  • Increased numeracy
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased secondary school enrolment
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved mental health
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Miss Koch Kenya
Chief Executive Officer
emmie.erondanga@misskoch.org