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