Protective Learning and Nurturing Environments for Girls Education (PLANE)

The project “Protective Learning and Nurturing Environments for Girls Education" (PLANE) aims to address the individual barriers that girls face in and out of school in El Salvador Guatemala and Honduras. This is done by ensuring that they have access to a safe space that offers them protection and safety both physically and psychologically as well as opportunities for learning. The project also aims to ensure young and adolescent girls who are out-of-school at-risk of dropping-out internally displaced and returned migrants have access to continue their learning uninterrupted by providing flexible relevant and alternative learning opportunities. An essential component to the method is that alternative learning leads to recognized certificates and enables re-integration into formal schooling or safe employment. While young and adolescent girls are the focus of the project the policies and many activities that benefit girls may also support boys : such as well-trained teachers inclusive and gender-responsive teaching methods that work for all students a high-quality and relevant curriculum and a focus on ensuring safe and secure learning environments for all children and adolescents. Project activities include: (1) setting-up physically-safe learning spaces; (2) establishing and strengthening safe spaces that offer opportunities to support the social and emotional wellbeing of girls through the provision of trained staff peer exchanges links and referrals to protective services and alternative learning; and (3) empowering girls to seek available support services and to know and realize their rights. This project is expected to reach 180 600 persons under the age of 18 (126 420 girls and 54 180 boys) and 31 326 teachers Ministry of Education officials and education committee members.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased equitable access for girls and adolescent girls* to safe protective inclusive and relevant learning environments; (2) increased equitable access by girls and adolescent girls* to flexible relevant and quality alternative learning opportunities; and (3) strengthened education systems inclusive policies flexible strategies and financial resources that uphold safe inclusive and quality education for girls and adolescent girls*. *includes marginalized girls and adolescent girls: with disabilities; internally displaced migrants or refugees; lesbian gay bisexual transgendered and intersex (LGBTI); and young mothers.