COVID-19 Support for Adolescent Girls

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Key Information

The COVID-19 Support for Adolescent Girls project in Sierra Leone aimed to strengthen the health, protection, and economic resilience of adolescent girls during the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative provided vocational training in soap-making to girls in multiple villages, enabling them to produce and sell sanitation products that were in high demand during the public health crisis while also supporting community hygiene and disease prevention efforts.

Alongside livelihood training, the program integrated education on life skills, health, protection, and gender equality, including messaging on hygiene practices, social distancing, and personal safety. By combining income-generating opportunities with awareness-raising and skills development, the project sought to reduce girls’ vulnerability to economic hardship, exploitation, and gender-based violence while promoting community health and empowerment.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Sierra Leone

Activity URL

https://www.worldhope.org/project/covid-19-support-for-girls/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2020 - 2020

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

New for COVID-19

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other skills
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Vocational training

Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Empowerment
  • Food/water security
  • Gender equality
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Life skills education
  • Gender, rights and power
Reducing economic barriers
  • Income-generating activities
School-related gender-based violence
  • Safe channels/mechanisms for reporting violence
Women's empowerment programs
  • Empowerment training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

Not applicable or unknown

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved health - other