Transforming Education: Transforming Lives Supporting Girls’ and Other Vulnerable Children’s Education across Southern Africa

<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:6.85pt;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:27.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language: EN-AU"><a name="_Hlk161643208">The project will be implemented in Phalombe and Balaka Districts in the southern part of Malawi. These districts show increased trends in school dropouts and low transition rates</a>, especially for learners coming from poor households. The specific project locations in the districts were provided by the District Executive Committee on the basis of these locations being largely neglected by organizations due to their difficult terrains<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>making<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>them<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>hard<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>to reach.<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>These<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>areas<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>usually are<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>marginalized<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>from<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>accessing<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>projects. Participants – girls and boys – in the project will be selected using government social protection criteria. Schools will select school bursary committees which will be in charge of adopting/ modifying the government social protection criteria for use in identifying learner beneficiaries.</span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:6.85pt;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:27.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language: EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p> </p><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->Objectives;</div><div><div id="ftn1"><div id="ftn1">Improve enrolment, retention, and completion of learners in targeted schools&nbsp;</div><div id="ftn1">Create a safe learning environment for learners by challenging negative socio norms that affect girls’ education&nbsp;</div><div id="ftn1">Increase performance (numeracy &amp; literacy) of learners in the targeted schools</div><div><br></div></div><div id="ftn1"> </div> </div>

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