Empowering Adolescent Girls to Learn and Earn (EAGLE) in Mozambique

This project aims to expand the basic literacy numeracy and skills development of 3 000 vulnerable out-of-school adolescent girls including adolescent mothers and those with disabilities or HIV/AIDS in six districts of the Manica and Sofala provinces of Mozambique. Project activities include: (1) providing adolescent girls access to accelerated literacy and numeracy classes that are age gender and disability appropriate to attain basic reading and writing skills; (2) supporting the development of business and life skills for income-generating opportunities and gain community and political support for their education and economic empowerment; (3) expanding the economic empowerment of these adolescent girls and improving their capacity to protect themselves from sexual and gender-based violence. The project addresses critical barriers to their education by providing them with informal education to gain business financial life literacy and numeracy skills while supporting their increased self-esteem sexual and reproductive health and rights and access to and control over their economic resources.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) enhanced learning outcomes of targeted vulnerable out-of-school adolescent girls and young women to help them make decisions about their lives; (2) improved sociocultural behaviours and practices of boys men families and community members that protect and promote vulnerable out-of-school girls and young women’s education empowerment and rights; and (3) improved effectiveness and availability of gender-responsive and inclusive public policies and programs on girls’ education and rights developed by local and national stakeholders.