The project will be informed by several policies, among them: Gender and education Policy. The policy emphasizes development of modalities for reducing gender disparities in education, with a focus on girls and teachers gender distribution. It aims at improving policy management and learning environments to make them more gender friendly and ensure that the primary education curriculum development, implementation, supervision and assessment address gender issues. It seeks to work with communities to provide, rehabilitate and expand sanitation facilities, create an enabling environment and coordinate stake holders’ participation in the provision of girls’ education. Kenya Adolescent Reproductive Health and Development Policy. The policy recognizes the critical roles adolescents themselves can play in promoting their own health and development and emphasizes the need for their participation in decision making, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes. It also reaffirms the role of parents, communities, education institutions and religious organizations in assisting children to develop positive norms, attitudes and values. Plan will facilitate participatory reviews of the Gender and Education policies to identify areas that may need improvement. Gaps identified through this process will form part of advocacy activities focused on national level policy issues.
Target Group
Direct Beneficiaries
This project primarily aims to reach girls aged 10 to 14 in upper primary school and adolescent girls aged between 15 to 18 years as they transit to secondary schools or tertiary institutions (e.g. polytechnics). While the focus of the project is on girls education, it will work with boys, men and women for promotion of gender equality.
The selection of the direct beneficiaries is justified by the Participatory Situational Analysis carried out in 2009 in the four Program Units. The schools targeted by this project were selected through a participative process involving children, communities, Ministry of Education, and other stakeholders in project area.
Project Design
Approach And Effectiveness
The project will address barriers to girls’ education through prioritizing the three strategic areas of: access, quality and education governance. This project aims to identify and develop the capacity of girls, boys, government officials, and community leaders, who can sustainably advocate gender equality and support in the evaluation of existing government and community structures on how they promote or inhibit equal access to education. Gender analysis will be carried out through intergenerational dialogues to facilitate better understanding on the gender divisions of labour, decision making roles, access, control and benefits, so providing an enhanced understanding of beliefs and practices, and institutional arrangements that promote or hinder discrimination against girls. Targeted interventions will seek to address barriers at family, community and government levels, as well as building the confidence and skills of girls to participate in education and in decision making processes.
Value For Money: It is important that projects provide good value for money (e.g. costs per beneficiary, % of costs on activities compared to running costs). Please explain in what way your project will offer the maximum benefit for the resources requested. What alternative approaches could have been applied and why have they been ruled out?
The project will provide value for money. The project value for money cannot be quantified but it can be derived from the relevance of the project to the direct and indirect beneficiaries, the sustainability of projects interventions and by its intention to reach girls as a marginalized group but that has potential for multiplier effects.
Beneficiary Involvement: Please specify how the project beneficiaries will be involved in the implementation, management and monitoring of the project.
The project recognizes the critical roles adolescents themselves can play in promoting their own health and development, and emphasizes the need for their participation in decision making, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programs addressing their own needs.
The Family and the Community
- Maintain the traditional role of supporting and moulding adolescents’ lives, whilst also being challenged by emerging socio-economic and cultural challenges.
- Advocate promote, and support this project’s implementation and the provision of information and services to the girls and boys.
- Support fully the integration of girls’ rights to education into the social, legislative and policy development agenda and support the eradication of un-favourable socio-cultural practices that promote gender inequality in education and violence against girls.
Children and Adolescents
- Seek appropriate information for themselves and enhance awareness of issues related to consumption of alcohol and harmful drugs.
- Mobilize individuals, leaders and the community to support the implementation of the project using existing structures in folk media and modern theatre.
- Articulate adolescent reproductive health issues to the public and other stakeholders.
- Take the initiative to make responsible life decisions and positively change their sexual and reproductive health behaviors, seek and utilize ARH counselling, information and services.
Project Sustainability
This is a long-term intervention which requires strong partnerships. To achieve sustainability, Plan will work in partnership with the Ministry of Education, Public Health and Sanitation; stakeholders and structures at local level; and women’s rights organizations. The project has a strong component of capacity strengthening, governance and advocacy aimed at ensuring that boys, girls, communities and other stakeholders are equipped with key skills to ensure sustained change. The project aims to build girls’ rights advocates who are respected and passionate about gender equality, and who will continue to promote girls’ right to education even after the termination of the project.
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