Project profile — Keeping Adolescent Girls in School in Tanzania



Overview 

CA-3-P008032001
$14,200,000
Plan International Canada (CA-CRA_ACR-0010011149)
2021-05-06 - 2026-03-31
Operational
Global Affairs Canada
WGM Africa

Country / region 

• Tanzania (100.00%)

Sector 

• Basic Education: Primary education (11220) (31.00%)
• Secondary Education: Secondary education (11320) (8.00%)
• Population Policies/Programmes And Reproductive Health: Reproductive health care (13020) (7.00%)
• Water And Sanitation: Basic sanitation (14032) (9.00%)
• Human rights:
Human rights (15160) (25.00%)
Ending violence against women and girls (15180) (20.00%)

Policy marker 

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

Description 

The project ensures that girls realize their right to safe, quality, gender-responsive education by improving the participation of adolescent girls in primary and secondary education in Tanzania. Project activities include: (1) increasing the availability of gender-responsive school facilities, such as latrines, and access to adolescent-friendly sexual and reproductive health services; (2) addressing the financial constraints poor girls and their families face by providing economic opportunities to support girls’ education; (3) offering re-entry points for out-of-school girls, particularly girls in remote communities and those living with disabilities; and (4) supporting girls’ transition from primary to secondary school or alternative learning programs for girls barred from enrolling due to pregnancy or early motherhood. This is achieved through cost-effective solutions to enable safe transport to secondary and alternative learning centres.

Expected results 

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved agency of adolescent girls (defined as the capacity to act and exert power over one’s life) to exercise their rights to education and sexual and reproductive health; (2) improved provision of gender-responsive education and sexual and reproductive health services for adolescent girls; and (3) strengthened local education sector governance to support access to safe, quality, gender-responsive schools.

Results achieved 

Results achieved as of March 2024 include: (1) empowered 13,159 adolescents (8,365 girls and 4,794 boys) with information on sexual and reproductive health and rights and menstrual health hygiene; (2) provided 550 bicycles to vulnerable adolescent girls, improving their attendance rate from 73.3% in 2022 to 88.5% in 2023; (3) distributed 25,000 puberty books to all 90 schools targeted by the project, increasing the availability of gender-responsive teaching and learning materials for primary and secondary schools; (4) trained 881 parents and 990 youth to increase capacity of community-based groups on gender-responsive planning, decision-making, and advocacy. It is worth noting that every school targeted by the project has now established a food program.

Budget and spending 


Original budget $1,968,394
Planned disbursement $3,194,274
Transactions
Transaction Date Type Value
30-09-2024 Disbursement $2,030,927
Country percentages by sector
Type of finance Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Collaboration type Bilateral
Type of aid Project-type interventions
Date modified: