Taaron Ki Toli Programme

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Key Information

Taaron ki Toli (TKT) is a school-based program for adolescent girls and boys (aged 11 to 14) in grades six to eight, which aims to change gender attitudes, aspirations, and behaviours of students that sustain gender inequalities. The curriculum is designed to develop the psychological, interpersonal, and social skills of adolescents and uses games, songs, drawing, and other activities to discuss topics such as gender stereotypes, gender roles at home, girls’ education, women’s employment outside the home, and harassment. Taaron Ki Toli has helped to incorporate a gender lens into middle school subject curricula based on the contextual needs of the region. The curriculum was accompanied with training modules for teachers, school leaders and officers to build overall gender sensitivity and develop the capacity to deliver the curriculum. Taaron Ki Toli has promoted a club based intervention in 150 schools with nearly 18000 adolescents. 

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

South Asia

India

Activity URL

https://www.millionlives.co/members/taaronkitoli-breakthrough

Government Affiliation
Government-affiliated program
Years

2014 -

Partner(s)

Ministry Affiliation
Directorate of School Education, Government of Haryana
Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response
Unknown
Geographic Scope
National
Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  
Unknown
Areas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
  • Secondary completion
Other skills
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning
Quality
  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School quality
  • School-related gender-based violence
  • Teacher training
Cross-cutting areas
  • Community sensitization
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Masculinities/boys
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Girls in school, Youth

Age

11 - 14

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
Other populations reached
  • School administrators
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male
Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
Curriculum/learning
  • Gender-sensitive curricula
Life skills education
  • Gender, rights and power
Mentoring/psychosocial support
  • Adult (non-teacher) mentors
Other
  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)
  • Sports programs
Social/gender norms change
  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Media campaigns
Teaching
  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
Women's empowerment programs
  • Empowerment training
  • Leadership training
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Curricula, teaching and learning materials are free of gender-bias and stereotypes
  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Reduced absenteeism
Cross-cutting goals
  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved mental health
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equal power in relationships
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
Additional Information Back to Top
Primary Contact
Sohini Bhattacharya, CEO
Breakthrough
sohini@inbreakthrough.org