Case study insights

Our Building Learning Foundations (BLF) programme is taking a system-wide approach to improving girls’ and boys’ learning in Rwanda, tackling inequality through teacher development, school leadership, system strengthening, inclusive education and safeguarding. This also involves addressing gendered inequalities within the education system. In this case study, we focus on the elements of the BLF programme that specifically aim to improve gender equity in learning and enhance female leadership for learning.

In Kenya, our Girls’ Education Challenge project is helping girls into vocational training to help them set up their own businesses. Among the more than 3,700 girls who have benefitted from bursaries for secondary schooling or vocational training, several are now employed to make protective face masks to combat the spread of Covid-19.

The UK Department for International Development’s Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) is helping up to a million of the world’s poorest girls improve their lives through education by funding projects around the world. Wasichana Wote Wasome in Kenya is one such project and Education Development Trust headed up this life-changing, large-scale project.

Our Wasichana Wetu Wafaulu (Let our girls succeed) programme in Kenya is part of the UK-funded worldwide Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) to help some of the world’s poorest girls improve their lives through education. It builds on the success of our Wasichana Wote Wasome (Let all girls learn) programme that increased school enrolment for girls.

Between 2010 and 2013 Education Development Trust supported the UNICEF Somalia funded programme, Integrated Capacity Development for Somali Education Administrations, focusing on five core strategic areas.

Disability continues to be one of the primary causes of educational disadvantage and exclusion within Southern and Eastern Africa. Education Development Trust and UNICEF jointly funded a study into the educational rights of children with disabilities.