General Report

GENDER EQUALITY PROMOTION AMONG BOYS AND GIRLS IN RWAMWANJA REFUGEE SETTLEMENT a project that has two objectives: 1.To contribute towards promotion of equal educational opportunities for girls and boys with the need to address cultural, religious and other forms of biases particularly against girls, 2.To contribute towards improved knowledge about gender equality and equity among primary school learners in Rwamwanja refugee settlement which in the long run will help eliminate gender discrimination and promote equal participation of men and women in social and economic development of their community. the key activities are: Conducting a needs assessment about gender equality education knowledge gaps in primary schools, Preliminary planning and sensitization meeting with all project stakeholders, Recruitment and Selection of the beneficiaries (school teachers), Training of selected primary school teachers(15 teachers per each cohort) In total 6 cohorts will be organized, Conducting periodic follow ups and reports, Monthly digital trainings for beneficiary teachers and Award of certificates to teachers after every five months.

1. The project had  Learners to be reached School follow-ups  in different primary schools located in Rwamwanja Refuge settlement(6000-8000)  and we have so far  reached 27364 learners reached (15391 girls and 11973 boys) with 19364 learners over  the target. we worked with Nkoma C.O.U, RWAMWANJA, NTEZIRYAYO, KYEMPANGO, MAHEGA, MAHANI, KIKURURA, Saint KATAFARI and GLOBAL Primary schools.

2.   Target on ICT trainings  was for 72-75 teachers: 42 teachers trained  (24 males and 18 females) with  33 teachers as variance to the target. the teachers were for the above mentioned schools.

3. Community mobilizations within Rwamwanja refugee settlement: target 13 zones. we conducted YTT-gender equality go back to school mobilizations in  Kyempango, Mahega, Mahani, Nkoma, Kaihora, kikurura, Buguta, Wijagahe, Basecamp zones and so far we have covered 9 zones since the start of the project December 2022.

We have come to know how great the gender equality program is building the capacity of the learners and this has increased the number of boys and girls in schools. In the community, parents at large have really appreciated the positive impact this program is creating to their children.  and the lesson learned  for the ICT sessions was that computer skills are very necessary in helping computer users to secure documents for future reference and make work easy. Teachers were very excited to this program since the world is shifting to digitalization. 

as Alpha Elimu, we anticipated that after the YTT session, teachers could benefit if they are more engaged in practical as well as engaging the learners. and there is still a need in the community of the ICT skills because we provided only the basics, our means of digitalization were limited, this brought us to a point of advocating for more funding in order to address this problem since these learners are the hope of the tomorrow world.