UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund

Published purpose

This project seeks to enhance equal learning outcomes and equal employability for adolescent girls in Tanzania. To achieve this, the project will ensure: (1) improved competence of teachers and Alternative Learning Pathways (ALT) facilitators to deliver quality gender-responsive education and skills development; (2) adolescent girls (in and out of school) have increased knowledge and skills to make their voices heard in decision-making processes and issues that affect them; (3) parents, caregivers and communities have increased knowledge and skills to promote girls’ participation and access to learning and skills development opportunities and (4) Capacity of government stakeholders strengthened to plan, deliver and monitor equitable access to gender-responsive education and skills development services. Project activities include: (1) implementing a joint advocacy plan on quality, equity and efficiency in basic education, including prevention of corporal punishment, Gender-Based Violence, the inclusion of pregnant girls, early marriage; (2) developing or strengthening continuous professional development modules and materials to ensure holistic, gender-responsive and skills-focused content provision for teachers’ capacity building both in the Mainland and Zanzibar; (3) supporting the setup and roll-out of a school-based assessment for learning system to support teacher capacity to assess and respond to students’ learning gaps; and (4) establishing and registering empowerment clubs in all Alternative Learning Pathways centers providing opportunities for girls to acquire start-up capital from the district council. The project expects to reach about 354,346 adolescents (80% of whom are girls), who have or are at risk of dropping out of school or who have never attended school due to poverty, marginalization, crisis, teenage pregnancy and early marriages. It also targets 5,660 teachers (50% of whom are women) to improve their skills in delivering quality and gender-responsive education. Also, the project aims to reach 745 communities (670 communities with both primary and secondary schools, 75 communities with primary schools only) and 1,415 schools. The project also targets 120 Alternative Learning Pathways centers for skills development.