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Rise Up Girls Project

The project aims to reduce gender-based barriers for adolescent girls’ education and skill development in Kenya.

Expected Outcomes

  • Government Policies and Plans Implemented to Reduce Gender-Based Barriers to Adolescent and Young Girls’
  • Strengthened gender-responsive safe learning
  • Increased Community-Level Actions to dismantle harmful gender norms and barriers to girls’ education; and

FAWE Kenya Institutional Capacity Strengthened

Project Reach

5 counties: Turkana, Garissa, Vihiga, Kisumu, Homabay

15 Secondary schools

  • 3schools per county
  • 5 Mixed Schools, 10 Girls Schools

Tuseme Club members 750 (743 Girls and 7boys)

Number of beneficiaries (e.g., girls, schools, communities). Geographical areas covered (counties, regions, etc.). Any special demographic focus (e.g., marginalized communities, youth, girls, women).

Project Interventions

  • Support review and completion of the Draft of the Education and Training Gender Policy, and the National Education Sector Strategic Plan (2023-2027)
  • Conduct research on the specific gender-based barriers that hinder girls’ education in the country (particularly, the research will try to establish barriers to the enactment and implementation of policies meant to reduce gender-based barriers to girls’ education in Kenya, and why there is no or little concerted effort to end barriers to girls’ education despite the existing policies and laws).
  • Support the government to disseminate key policies, such as the Re-entry Policy of 2020, Guidance and Counseling Policy 2023, Mentorship Policy 2018 to 5 select Counties and Schools.
  • Support initiatives that enhance the capacity of teachers and educators to provide gender-responsive and inclusive environments in 15 secondary institutions across the 5 counties.
  • Provide secondary-level bursaries to 30 vulnerable girls who are at risk of dropping out of school due to Gender-based violence including child marriage, teenage pregnancies, and FGM.
  • Support FAWE-K journalists’ network to write compelling narratives and stories that highlight the importance of girls’ education and showcase successful examples of girls who have overcome barriers.

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