Education Support Program

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Key Information

The Education program focuses on boys, girls, and children with disabilities through the following activities;

- Enrolling vulnerable children for ECDE, primary, secondary, tertiary and university educations

- Providing continous support to students by paying schools fees, purchasing school stationery, providing bicycles, distribution of solar lamps.

- Offering mentorship and education on menstraul hygiene management.  

- Implementation of a feeding program for both school and no-school going children.

-Educating students on sexual reproductive health, training school peer educators and support WASH projects in school. 

- Undertaking improvement of school infrastructure as well engaging in child protection and advocacy.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya

Activity URL

Not applicable or unknown

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2010 - 2027

Partner(s)

Government of Kenya Ministry of Education, Health, Water

Ministry Affiliation

Kenya Ministries of Education, Health, and Water

Funder(s)

Kenya Community Development Foundation, Macknoll Fathers and Brothers, Bufallo Foundation

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

  • Post-secondary
  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other

  • Early childhood development

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Vocational training

Quality

  • School facilities

Cross-cutting areas

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

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), School administrators, Teachers - female, Teachers - male, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

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

Other populations reached

  • Community leaders
  • Mothers
  • Other caregivers
  • Other family members
  • Parent-teacher associations/school management committees
  • Religious leaders

Participants include

  • Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
  • Indigenous
  • Orphans and vulnerable children
  • People living with HIV/AIDS
  • People with disabilities

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Expanding boarding opportunities
  • Improving transportation

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
  • School management committees
  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments

Educational Technology

  • Online training

Facilities construction/improvement

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

Food/nutrition

  • Community food production
  • School feeding

Health and childcare services

  • Adolescent-friendly health services
  • Condom distribution
  • HIV prevention
  • HIV treatment and care
  • Referrals to health services
  • Sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning)

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Increased availability of Math materials (rulers, protractors, calculators, etc.)
  • Increased availability of Writing materials
  • Textbooks (paper)

Learning while working

  • Apprenticeship/internship
  • Vocational training

Life skills education

  • Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)
  • Gender, rights and power

Menstrual hygiene management

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

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Peer mentors

Other

  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)
  • Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)
  • Sports programs

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
  • Public-private partnerships
  • Raising awareness about existing laws/policies

Reducing economic barriers

  • Addressing cost of school supplies
  • Income-generating activities
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees
  • Uniforms

School-related gender-based violence

  • Safe transportation

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Media campaigns

Water and sanitation

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

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Empowerment training
  • Leadership training
  • 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)
  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased literacy
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased secondary school enrolment
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Reduced grade repetition

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved maternal, newborn, and/or child health (MNCH)
  • Improved nutrition
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS
  • Reduced violence against children in the home

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Justin Mutobera
Support Activities In Poverty Eradication and Health (SAIPEH)
Executive Director
jmutobera@gmail.com
+254716277768