Plan International Canada Inc

Published purpose

This project aims to support access to safe and gender-responsive education for girls and boys between the ages of 6 and 16, by addressing the urgent and growing needs they face in the security challenged northern and eastern regions of Burkina Faso. The project implements the Speed Schools approach, an intensive nine-month program which encompasses the first three years of primary school to allow out-of-school children to catch up to their peers, and effectively integrate them into the formal education system. This approach works to enable girls and boys to reintegrate into schools when they reopen, or allow them to continue their schooling at-level in temporary sites located in more secure parts of the country. Project activities include: (1) conducting sensitization and face-to-face community outreach campaigns on the value of girls’ right to education and protection; (2) providing training to teachers; (3) providing vouchers/cash transfer to households of highly vulnerable internally displaced people (IDPs) with adolescent girls transitioning to post-primary, including those with disabilities; and (4) rehabilitating latrines and establishing temporary learning spaces to address safety, inclusion, and IDP influx, according to rapid needs assessments.