Project profile — Education for Crisis-Affected Girls in Eastern DRC



Overview 

CA-3-P006960001
$7,998,846
Save the Children Canada (22502)
2020-02-26 - 2023-06-30
Closed
Global Affairs Canada
WGM Africa

Country / region 

• Congo, Democratic Republic (100.00%)

Sector 

• Education policy and administrative management:
Education policy and administrative management (11110) (15.00%)
Education facilities and training (11120) (25.00%)
Teacher training (11130) (20.00%)
• Population Policies/Programmes And Reproductive Health: Population policy and administrative management (13010) (5.00%)
• Water And Sanitation: Basic sanitation (14032) (10.00%)
• Government And Civil Society, General: Ending violence against women and girls (15180) (25.00%)

Policy marker 

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

Description 

The project aims to support the reintegration of child survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) into a safer school system in the conflict-affected and marginalized communities of North and South Kivu in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The project works to improve girls’ access to education and strengthening education systems to be gender-responsive. The project also works to provide immediate psychosocial, emotional and material support to reintegrate child survivors of SGBV into school. The project seeks to tackle harmful gender norms and gender inequality at the household, school and community level by promoting positive gender norms. Project activities include: (1) providing social and emotional support, as well as materials and financial support to 900 SGBV survivors and other vulnerable girls and boys to pursue formal and non-formal education; (2) providing training to 780 education leaders or members of school governance structures (school management committees, parent and student associations) on positive gender norms, and the provision of an inclusive, safe, gender-responsive school environment; (3) improving the capacity of 1,445 teachers (of which 466 are women) to deliver protective, inclusive, gender-responsive instructions to girls, including survivors of SGBV. The project aims to target some 30, 675 direct beneficiaries, including 14, 025 girls and 14, 025 boys between the ages of 6 and 16, and 720 girls and 180 boys survivors of SGBV. The project also aims to reach approximately 87, 600 indirect beneficiaries to receive key messages to raise awareness and strengthen attitudes towards girls’ education.

Expected results 

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased equitable access for girls and adolescent girls, including survivors of SGBV, to safe, quality and inclusive formal and non-formal learning opportunities; (2) improved quality, safety and gender responsiveness of learning environments conducive to the protection and retention of girls and adolescent girls, including survivors of SGBV; and (3) increased commitment of State and non-State actors to prioritize gender responsive and safe education for girls and reduce SGBV at district and national levels.

Results achieved 

Results achieved at the end of the project (June 2023) include: (1) integrated 3,022 children (1,540 girls and 1,482 boys) into the formal education system and 2,487 children (1,532 girls and 955 boys) into the non-formal system of remedial education centers (REC); (2) trained 536 teachers (339 men and 197 women), on protection, psychosocial care and gender-based violence. The project also led to improved collaboration between teachers from partner schools and community protection networks to facilitate the referral and identification of protection cases; (3) trained 464 people (232 men and 232 women) members of community protection networks on various topics, notably child protection, sexual and gender-based violence and psychosocial support; (4) distributed 37,959 school kits to children (18,791 girls and 19,168 boys) enrolled in formal and non-formal education systems; (5) provided menstrual hygiene management kits to 6,024 girls and participated in educational talks aimed at mitigating the risk of stigmatization of vulnerable children and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence; and (6) supported 85 schools to develop and implement school improvement plans, including a focus on gender-sensitive water, sanitation and hygiene facilities.

Budget and spending 


Original budget $0
Planned disbursement $0
Transactions
Transaction Date Type Value
16-02-2024 Disbursement $398,846
Country percentages by sector
Type of finance Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Collaboration type Bilateral
Type of aid Project-type interventions
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