2.3 Gender Responsive Pedagogy (GRP) and Tuseme Models

Participants of the virtual FAWE Gender Responsive Pedagogy (GRP) training pose for a screenshot after a successful session in October 2021.

2.3 gender Responsive Pedagogy (gRP) and Tuseme Models

The FAWE GRP model aims at equipping educators with gender responsive pedagogical skills; to promote gender equity and equality in education. In a bid to promote self-assessment and for a wider reach across Africa, FAWE embarked on a journey to digitize the GRP manual including digitized GRP voice.

online gRP Training session for FAWE RS and WASRo staff

With support from IsDB (Islamic Development Bank), 40 teachers from Senegal and Togo were trained on GRP and Tuseme models. These are FAWE models used as empowerment frameworks to enhance social and psychological skills in young people with a specific focus on self-confidence. Over 90 education stakeholders from Burundi, DRC and Rwanda were trained on gender responsive pedagogy and 30 stakeholders from Burundi, DRC and Rwanda were trained on school related gender-based violence (SRGBV) to enable them mitigate risks and dangers that expose students to SRGBV. Similarly, under the GIZ project which focuses on the re-entry of teenage mothers back to school, a study on the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on school going girls in Uganda was conducted and findings disseminated to key stakeholders in 6 districts and schools. Parents, caregivers, religious and cultural leaders in the 6 districts were also sensitized on SRHR, early child marriage and sexual harassment. Currently FAWE Rwanda and Ministry of Education are creating media awareness on teen pregnancy and SRHR.

Staff members from the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) Uganda Chapter pose with Members of Parliament after a National Dialogue held to find practical solutions and end all forms of sexual and gender-based violence mated on girls and young women as a result of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda, December 2021.

3.0

AdvoCACy ANd PoLICy ENgAgEMENT

The year 2021 saw many African countries pick up the pieces from the wrath of 2020 COVID 19 pandemic. Most school children resumed their studies and most program had to be rejuvenated. FAWE continued to work together with her partners and key stakeholders in the Advocacy and policy engagement space to advance her mission of ensuring women and girls access affordable and quality education.

3.1 FAWE, a Pan-African thought leader

FAWE provided leadership in several international fora championing for education for girls in Africa. As the Chair of the Gender is my Agenda Campaign (GIMAC), FAWE officiated the 36th summit co-moderating the health and education session which resolved on enhancing governments support on girls’ health and education. FAWE leads the education thematic group of GIMAC which in the year focused on championing the need of African countries to honor the Kenyatta Declaration on adoption SRHR services and comprehensive sexuality Education in schools and adoption of new age methods of communication such as Facebook, Twitter and how these can be harnessed to provide education for the youth.

FAWE is also a member of the AU CESA Teacher Development Cluster and actively took part in the East and Southern Africa regional consultative meeting hosted by UNESCO on adult learning education; roundtable by UNICEF technical note on COVID 19 effect on Education and consultative webinar wit AU goodwill ambassador on ending child marriage.

3.2 Leveraging on partnerships to advocate for girl child education

As a way of promoting girls’ education and enhancing her place in the society, FAWE embarked on a series of media activities in 2021. Notably, FAWE’s Executive Director Ms. Martha Muhwezi participated in an interview coordinated by Mastercard Foundation and aired by CNBC Africa on enabling young women’s leadership

In commemoration of the Day of the African Child marked on 16th June, FAWE partnered with the ACERWC CSOs forum and The Center for Human Rights University of Pretoria to organize a regional webinar on accelerating the implementation of Agenda 2040. The webinar culminated in the release of a documentary on Her Stolen Childhood aimed at showcasing voices of child mothers in the continent. FAWE also made a presentation around SRGBV in the Global solutions webinar dubbed Preventing violence against children in and through schools.

As part of the International Day of the Girl celebrations, FAWE participated in the UNGEI East and Southern Africa Working group quarterly meeting and made a presentation on key CSOs opportunities for engagement at the AU CESA Cluster. FAWE got a chance to showcase her work on teenage reentry policies during the CESA meeting and partnered with UNICEF and UNHCR to host UNGEI cluster high level meeting where FAWE presented on education financing for girls.

FAWE in collaboration with FAWE Kenya facilitated 10 girls to participate in the pre-summit to the African Girls Summit (AGS). The Summit collected the voices of girls from across Africa and the outcome statement from the presummit was included in the main AGS. Similarly, FAWE mobilized 15 girls from Kenya to participate in the AU African Girls Summit Nhanga event organized by the AU goodwill ambassador on ending child marriage.