Strengthening Opportunities for Adolescent Resilience (SOAR)

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A Active

Key Information

Strengthening Opportunities for Adolescent Resilience (SOAR) seeks to empower adolescent girls who have never attended school, or who dropped out in early grades, to make positive life choices.

SOAR provides access to an integrated accelerated education model through which graduates acquire basic skills in literacy, numeracy, and financial literacy. Adolescent girls (and boys) are also equipped with the knowledge, self-confidence, vision, and relationships needed to engage in entrepreneurship and to participate in decision-making at home and in their communities. Globally, about 258 million children and adolescents are out of school. Millions of other children in low-income countries are not acquiring the basic literacy and numeracy skills needed for future livelihoods: It is estimated that only 15% of the children who complete lower secondary school in Sub-Saharan Africa have achieved basic proficiency in reading, while 10% have acquired basic skills in mathematics.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

India, Malawi, Nepal, Somalia, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Activity URL

https://www.care.org/our-work/education-and-work/education/strengthening-opportunities-for-adolescent-resilience/

Government Affiliation
Non-governmental program
Years

2015 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation
Unknown
Funder(s)

Sunbridge Foundation, Mary Jan Bancroft, Peierls Foundation, Procter & Gamble, Discover, SAP Concur

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 enrollment
  • Secondary Enrollment
Other
  • Transition from school to work
Other skills
  • Financial literacy
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Vocational training
Skills
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
Cross-cutting areas
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls out of school, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All out of school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational
Other populations reached
  • Boys out of school
Participants include
  • N/A
Program Approaches Back to Top
Learning while working
  • Vocational training
Life skills education
  • Gender, rights and power
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building
Reducing economic barriers
  • Financial literacy training
Tutoring/strengthening academic skills
  • Literacy - outside the classroom
  • Numeracy - outside the classroom
Women's empowerment programs
  • Empowerment training
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
Cross-cutting goals
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Reduced child marriage
Additional Information Back to Top
Primary Contact
Katherine Begley
CARE
Senior Technical Advisor for Education, CARE USA
katherine.begley@care.org