NIGEE Vocational Training Centre
- P Project/Program
A Active
Key Information
To serve target beneficiaries and their intersectionalities, Nyanza Initiative for Girls' Education and Empowerment offers vocational skills training on hairdressing, beauty therapy, fashion and design and basic computer skills. Once trained, the students sit for trade test exams by National Industrial Training Authority (NITA), which are 90% practical, making the courses applicable for girls who have not completed primary education. Nyanza Initiative for Girls' Education and Empowerment has also set up a day care where under-school going children of the students are cared for while their mothers are in class.
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya
Activity URL
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2021 - 2030
Partner(s)
Not applicable or unknown
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownFunder(s)
Not applicable or unknown
COVID-19 Response
New for COVID-19Geographic Scope
NationalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
UnknownAreas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Other
- Transition from school to work
Other skills
- Vocational training
Cross-cutting areas
- Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Community sensitization
- Empowerment
- Social and gender norms and beliefs
- Violence (at home, in relationships)
Program participants
Target Audience(s)
Girls out of school, Other, Youth
Age
16 - 30
School Enrolment Status
All out of school
School Level
- Vocational
Other populations reached
- Community leaders
- Mothers
- Other caregivers
- School administrators
- Spouses/partners
Participants include
- Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
- NEET
Program Approaches Back to Top
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
- Community mobilization
- General awareness-raising/community engagement
Health and childcare services
- Sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning)
Learning while working
- Apprenticeship/internship
- Vocational training
Life skills education
- Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)
- Gender, rights and power
- Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
- Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building
Menstrual hygiene management
- Raising awareness about menstruation (beyond just girls)
Mentoring/psychosocial support
- School-based counselors
Policy/legal environment
- Raising awareness about existing laws/policies
Reducing economic barriers
- Income-generating activities
- Microcredit
- Savings accounts
- Vouchers/grants
Social/gender norms change
- Work with community leaders
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
- Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
Cross-cutting goals
- Changed social norms
- Improved critical consciousness
- Increased agency and empowerment
- Increased employment/job-related skills
- Reduced violence against children in the home