Girl child friendly school Environment

1. The problem to be solved is girl children usually drop out of school when they reach adolescent stage and start menstration, schools do not have adequate services to address this: for example no separate latrines for boys and girls. As a result girl children go for early marriages.

The proposed solution is to provide privacy and sanitary services, wash rooms for adolescent girls coupled with adolescent sexual and reproductive health education and counseling by senior women teachers

The solution will improve on equal participation of women and men  in development and decision making globally. It will also improve on literacy levels of women

Communities don’t understand their role in WaSH promotion in their schools and the importance of Education especially to girl child who are seen as ‘value for cows’(pride price)

Senior woman and Man teachers have little knowledge on their roles and responsibilities and as well Health committees are absent in all schools

Limited approaches to WaSH promotion in schools coupled with Over 65%  of the schools  have latrine/toilet pupils stance ratio above 1:70

The solution is to provide separate latrines/toilets and wash rooms for girls, provide sanitary pads and access to safe water and soap.

Train Senior women  teachers to give counseling to adolescent girls

Improved child friendly learning environments and processes to promote equity in access to primary education.

Improved education planning and monitoring at school, sub county and district levels. 

  it only needs trainings

The target population in girls in rural schools who drop out before completing primary level. Their needs are understood through community voices and school records.

The solution will address their needs through increased understanding and planning for WaSH in schools by the stakeholders,increased availability of information/data on state of WaSH in schools

increased retention of girl child in schools.

High rates of girl child school drop out due to bad school environments, therefore by improving on the friendly environment, girl children will find it good for them to continue with education

Its innovative because it targets to increase on the number of girls completing primary school

The technology/ approach is existing

The technology/approach is used by Netherlands development organization SNV in Uganda and has yielded positive results.

The solution has analyzed the finding and shared them with schools according to the extent to which they affect learning. Special focus will be given to the girl child needs.

The solution has developed interventions for each school

Currently we are serving 6000 people and 6000 will be served in one year and 30,000 in five years

The five-year plan shall contribute to the realization of sector goals, which include:

• To improve access to safe water and sanitation.
• To improve livelihoods of People living with HIV/AIDS
• To Promote environmental protection practices
• To enhance community ability to respond to disaster
• To promote networks and linkages between relevant stakeholders on sustainable development.
• To promote advocacy for policies and interventions for sustainable community development.
• Enhance on reproductive heath services
• To improve on education services delivery
• To enhance organizational development for effective service delivery

The barriers are financing and limited access to donors.

This will be through local and international fundraising.

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six (6) full time staff

it is a long time experience with SNV in the same field

The following are the organizations we partner with

International: SNV, CANADA FUND, OXFAM, IUCN

Local: hope for African women, district local governments and sector departments, community based organizations and women groups

As a charity we work with communities through a project cycle process of problem analysis, planning and fundraising, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

Through sustainable donations

In order to solve community problems and contribute to global development

to have a wide range of networks. Information sharing

All organizations with similar objectives as:

• To improve the livelihoods of communities:
• To promote sustainable natural resources management wi
• To enhance community ability to respond to disasters and epidemics.
• Improve health conditions of communities

• Promoting sustainable farming practices
• Engage in income generating projects for vulnerable persons

• Promoting environmental protection practices;
• Climate change adaptation and mitigation
• To improve availability and access to safe water and sanitation facilities;
• Improve equitable access to education

We qualify for the prize Mt. elgon region in Uganda is characterized by floods and landslides and there are repeated displacements and relocations of people.

It will be used to meet the needs and rights of the vulnerable women and children

We have women groups we work with and therefore qualify.

The grant will be used to improve livelihoods of women by supporting them  in farm supplies,  water storage/ and irrigation to cope with climate change.

We work with women groups and girls and there fore qualify.

The prize will be used to improve the skills of women and girls in art and crafts so as it improves on their livelihoods

We work with women groups and girls and there fore qualify.

The prize will be used to improve the skills of women and girls in art and crafts so as it improves on their livelihoods. Vocational center will be set out for skills to the youth in building, sewing and farming.

We plan to use data science in future