Vocational Workshops

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

Providing equal access to vocational education for boys and girls in the area of crafts (carpentry, metal workshop, sewing, cooking, bakery, electricity)

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Latin America & Caribbean

Bolivia, Plurinational State of, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru

Activity URL

https://www.nph.org/

Government Affiliation
Non-governmental program
Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

NPH fundraising offices in Canada, USA, New Zealand, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Luxemburg, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Spain

Ministry Affiliation
Unknown
Funder(s)

MAPFRE

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
Other
  • Transition from school to work
Other skills
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning
  • Vocational training
Quality
  • School-related gender-based violence
Skills
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • Other academic performance-related
  • STEM
Cross-cutting areas
  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Early/child marriage
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • HIV and STIs
  • Masculinities/boys
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Nutrition
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Sexual harassment & coercion
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Youth

Age

6 - 19

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Vocational
Other populations reached
  • Boys (both in school and out of school)
  • Community leaders
  • Fathers
  • Girls out of school
  • Mothers
  • Other caregivers
  • Other family members
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male
Participants include
  • Orphans and vulnerable children
Program Approaches Back to Top
Food/nutrition
  • Other nutritional supplementation
Health and childcare services
  • Adolescent-friendly health services
  • HIV treatment and care
  • Referrals to health services
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
Mentoring/psychosocial support
  • School-based counselors
Social/gender norms change
  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents
Women's empowerment programs
  • Empowerment training
  • Leadership training
  • Self-help groups (non-financial)
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism
Cross-cutting goals
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved mental health
  • Improved nutrition
  • Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • More equal power in relationships
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS
  • Reduced violence against children in the home
Additional Information Back to Top
Primary Contact
Markus Streit
Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos
NPHI Family Service coordinator
markus.streit@nph.org