Project profile — Education and Rights for Marginalized Adolescents in Peru

• Peru (100.00%)

• Secondary Education: Secondary education (11320) (20.00%)
• Population policy and administrative management:
Population policy and administrative management (13010) (20.00%)
Family planning (13030) (20.00%)
Personnel development for population and reproductive health (13081) (20.00%)
• Human rights:
Human rights (15160) (10.00%)
Ending violence against women and girls (15180) (10.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (significant objective)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Nutrition (significant objective)
• Youth Issues (principal objective)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)

In Peru, marginalized adolescents face significant barriers to completing their secondary education, which perpetuates their social and economic exclusion. This project aims to support young people, especially indigenous adolescent girls, to exercise their rights and achieve their full potential. This is achieved by improving the education system, namely the curricula and the services offered in schools in order to encourage adolescents to complete their secondary education. The project also aims to improve the health and protection services offered to vulnerable adolescents, in order to ensure an environment conducive to their learning and development. The project aims to ensure adolescents are involved in making decisions that affect them, through social media platforms and artistic expression mechanisms. The project is implemented in two Amazonian regions (Loreto and Ucayali), in one Andean region (Huancavelica) and in the poor suburbs of Lima. The results achieved through these pilots will subsequently be replicated throughout the country.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved progression of adolescents and particularly adolescent girls, as a result of secondary education that provides quality education, promotes gender equality and recognizes ethnic identity in a violence-free environment; (2) improved public policies and services that promote the development of adolescent boys and girls; and (3) improved participation of adolescent and particularly adolescent girls to influence policies that affect them.

Results achieved as of March 2024 include: (1) reached 2,128 schools and more than 1,346,000 students benefited from using the Ministry of Education’s school violence prevention program. It also trained 1,000 ministry specialists for them to accompany the Program implementation directly in schools; (2) the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations (MIMP) mandated the Specialized Intervention for the Protection of Children and Adolescents Program. As a result, the program engaged 4,617 protection, justice, and care services operators in 2023 and enrolled 4,710 participants in its first edition in 2024; and (3) identified the needs and interests of 14,454 adolescents (52% women) on issues including protection, education, and participation through the “My Voice Matters” survey supported by the project. And incorporated the result into management documents, including the multisectoral committee for the rights of children and adolescents and the Carabayllo-Lima district local government. The MIMP is leading a process of scaling the Survey to the National level.

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