Project profile — Learning Through Education and Access to Skills for Employment for Refugees and Host Communities

• Kenya (100.00%)

• Basic Education: Primary education (11220) (25.00%)
• Secondary education:
Secondary education (11320) (25.00%)
Vocational training (11330) (50.00%)

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

This project aims to empower adolescent girls and young women in the Kalobeyei settlement and the Kakuma refugee camp, and host communities of the Turkana district of Kenya. The project works to improve the enrolment and retention of girls in upper primary and secondary school levels in Kalobeyei and surrounding communities, and to provide gender responsive job market-based skills training in Kalobeyei and Kakuma. The project works towards building girl-friendly school environments, providing targeted learning support to adolescent girls and young women, and generating parent and community support for girls’ education. Project activities include: (1) improving the pedagogical skills of approximately 180 teachers in 15 schools (8 host and 7 refugee) to ensure that lessons are planned and delivered in a quality, gender-responsive and inclusive manner, and in a safe classroom environment; (2) providing remedial lessons that provide additional study time to approximately 2,800 adolescent girls and young women at risk of dropping out due to poor performance; (3) engaging parents, community (particularly men and boys), and religious leaders to foster safe and supportive environments for girls’ education and to mitigate the risk of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV); (4) delivering multi-media campaign on gender equitable participation in skills training and trades; and (5) supporting young women through mentorship programs that support life-skills. It is expected that the project will directly benefit 6,515 girls, adolescent girls and young women (between the ages of 12 and 25) and, indirectly, 42,465 beneficiaries (including 6,798 boys enrolled within the targeted schools).

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved learning outcomes from girls (between the ages of 12 and 18) and young women (between the ages of 19 and 25), particularly refugees, at upper primary and secondary school levels in Kalobeyei; and (2) increased employment of young women (between the ages of 19 and 25), including refugees and out-of-school young women, in gender responsive, market-based skills training in the Kalobeyei settlement, host communities and Kakuma refugee camp.

Results achieved as of March 2024 include: (1) trained 814 young women on savings and loans methodology, business skills and digital literacy; (2) supported 821 women in formal technical skills training; (3) 630 young women received life skills training. The beneficiaries are 656 parents; (4) interactive radio shows in Swahili centred on the equitable participation of young women in the formal and informal workforce reached 46,273 people in Kakuma, Kalobeyei and surrounding communities; (5) enrolled 731 girls in remedial classes in primary and secondary schools; (6) trained 430 community mobilizers, teachers, remedial teachers and 656 parents on child protection and safeguarding policies, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual and gender-based violence; (7) 785 men and boys participated in outreach sessions to address gender roles and joint decision making; and (8) supported 2,143 households through cash transfers to keep their girls in school.

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