FAWE's Gender Sensitive Schools

  • P Project/Program

A Active

Key Information

Equipping teachers with knowledge, skills and attitudes to empower them to respond adequately to the learning needs of girls and boys through using gender-aware classroom processes and practices.

Teaching quality has a significant impact on academic access, retention and performance. Yet many teachers in sub-Saharan Africa, conditioned by male-dominated values in their communities, employ teaching methods that do not provide equal opportunity to participation for girls and boys. Neither do these methods take into account the individual needs of learners, especially girls.

FAWE developed the Gender-Responsive Pedagogy (GRP) model to address the quality of teaching in African schools.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Gambia, The, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania

Activity URL

https://fawe.org/our-programmes/interventions/gender-responsive-pedagogy/#:~:text=FAWE%20developed%20the%20Gender%2DResponsive,learning%20needs%20of%20both%20sexes.

Government Affiliation
Unknown
Years

2005 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation
N/A
Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response
Unknown
Geographic Scope
Global / regional
Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  
Unknown
Areas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
  • Primary completion
  • Secondary completion
Quality
  • School quality
  • Teacher training
Cross-cutting areas

Not applicable or unknown

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Girls in school, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include
  • N/A
Program Approaches Back to Top
Menstrual hygiene management
  • Educating girls about menstruation
Teaching
  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • Pre-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Reduced absenteeism
Cross-cutting goals
  • Changed social norms
Additional Information Back to Top
Primary Contact
Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE)