Regions: Africa   Asia   Latin America


Name of Organization: Forum for African Women in Education (FAWE)

Country: Ghana

Project Title: "Integrated Community-Based Pilot Project to Reduce Child Labor through Strengthening of Formal and Non-Formal Education in Nsaba Educational Circuit"

Project Timeframe: 24 Months

Location of Project: Nsaba

Budget Amount: $65,000

NGO contact and website:
Camilla Haldane-Lutterodt
P.O. BOX C1217 Cantonments - Accra, Ghana
Office: (233) 21 406853
Fax: (233) 21 406682
Email: fawegh@africaonline.com.gh Website: www.africaonline.com.gh/fawe

Project's Primary Objective:
Objective # 2 - Strengthening Formal and Informal Educational System

Description of Organization:
The FAWE Ghana Chapter takes its mandate from the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), an African regional organization whose goal is to work consistently at correcting the gender disparities and inequalities in education all over Sub-Saharan Africa and to increase female participation in education at all levels of education by:
  • Influencing relevant educational policies to expand female enrollment, improve performance and sustain survival;
  • Documenting and disseminating information on innovative strategies that promote education of females;
  • Encouraging replication of strategies and best practices; and
  • Building essential linkages between educational research, policy planning and implementation.
FAWE vision and mission to close the gender gap in education and ensure that education for all is made meaningful and to see that factors that creates a problem for the education of girls, is not overlooked, especially those related to child labor.

Description of Project funded by CIRCLE:
The Integrated Community-Based Pilot Project to Reduce Child Labor through Strengthening of Formal and Non-Formal Education in Nsaba Educational Circuit Project includes interventions with the overall goal of minimizing the problems of child labor and its consequences. The project aims to strengthen formal, non-formal and transitional education that will encourage children at risk, particularly girls, to enroll, persist, achieve and attain higher education for development. Specifically, the following interventions will be undertaken:
  • Advocacy and awareness creation to sensitize and educate the public on the importance of education as a means of minimizing child labor and promoting education for all;
  • Strengthening of formal education through provision of teaching and learning materials;
  • Training of head teachers in school administration, management and career guidance and counseling to strengthen school management, and to encourage enrollment, persistence and completion;
  • Strengthening of supervision and monitoring of teaching and learning to add value to education; and
  • Support for girl's persistence and transition through provision of bursaries.

Project Targets (Common Indicators):
Enrollment:
  • 90% of children of school-age enrolled at the beginning of project cycle; and
  • 80% of children at risk, especially girls enrolled.
Persistence:
  • increase persistence by 50% (decrease dropout by 50%); and
  • 2,500 children encourage to persist in school.

Transition: 60 needy girls provided with bursaries to transit into and persist in secondary school