FAWE Burkina Faso

FAWE’S action on the ground

Policy Advocacy

  • Conducted national campaign for EFA
  • Collaborates with MoE on accelerating EFA
  • With NGOs plan implementation of 10 years basis education development plan
  • Trained 15 chapter Executive Committee members on gender and education

Community Advocacy

  • Celebrate International Women’s Day
  • Organize girls’ education day
  • Sensitisation of traditional chiefs and religious leaders
  • FAWE Award for media Excellence – 2001
  • Gender sensitisation of teachers
  • Chapter newsletter on girls’ issues – Info Clubs AFED

Interventions

  • FAWE regional pilot programme on HIV/AIDS
  • Vocational training for out-of school adolescent girls (159 girls in 2001
  • Training Centre for NFE literacy classes for 9-15 year old girls
  • Centre of Excellence at Dipeo Primary School, Burkina Faso
  • Mainstreaming of FEMSA best practices
  • Interschool competitions on SMT subjects
  • Uniform and school bags for 200 poor girls
  • Bursaries for girls (53 girls in 2001)
  • Monitor girls’ activities
  • Mothers’ clubs in different districts

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    Country Education Statistics – Source: World Bank