Foundations for Education and Empowerment in Africa

This project aims to improve the educational systems at the pre-primary and primary level and to strengthen women’s empowerment and gender equality in Kenya Madagascar Mozambique Tanzania and Uganda. The project is comprised of three components: foundations for learning; advancing gender equality through civil society; and advancing Canadian champions for development. Through these components the project aims to enhance equitable development and empowerment for women girls adolescents their families and communities in the target countries. Project activities include: (1) developing gender-responsive pedagogical approaches for teaching and school leadership; (2) training educators and education professionals; (3) collaborating with governments to equip education and early childhood development centres with appropriate curricula protocols resources and tools; (4) working with parents communities and civil society organizations to respond to the challenges facing girls and women in education and civic spaces that often exclude them from participation and decision-making; and (5) engaging Canadians and deploying Canadian specialists to support human resource capacity building in key local partner organizations. The project aims to directly benefit 1.8 million people across the five countries of implementation including 923 000 students and 930 000 teachers school leaders parents government official and civil society organization members.

The expected outcome for this project include: (1) strengthened delivery of quality gender-responsive and inclusive education early childhood development and other sustainable development services in select areas of Africa; (2) reduced gender and social barriers to utilization and uptake of education early childhood development and other sustainable development services for women and girls adolescents men and boys in select areas of Africa; and (3) enhanced engagement of international development and Canadian stakeholders in gender-sensitive and evidence-based development issues and programming.