Each month we highlight a different issue in education in sub-Saharan Africa, an aspect of FAWE’s work, a country or sub-region in which we work or another topical issue. Please click here for a series of features.
International Women's Day - A call to end violence against girls and women
One afternoon, as Gloria was walking to the stream near her village to fetch water, one of her neighbours dragged her into the bushes and raped her. She became pregnant from the attack.
The FAWE interview series - Hon. Betty Mould Idrissu, Minister of Education, Ghana
How can education equip young Africans to become productive adults?African decision-makers discuss relevant education, practical skills and employment opportunities for African youth.
How can education equip young Africans to become productive adults? African decision-makers discuss relevant education, practical skills and employment opportunities for African youth.
Empowering African girls and women for life
A key concern of the African education sector today is ensuring that education programmes equip young Africans with the ideal combination of knowledge and practical skills for the transition to productive adult life. With the gross enrolment ratio in tertiary education at just six percent in sub-Saharan Africa1, it is clear that the majority of young people joining the labour force do so immediately after secondary education.
International Women’s Day – celebrating FAWE’s role in transforming the lives of African women
Every year, on 8 March, International Women’s Day
brings to the fore women’s accomplishments and their immense potential
for accelerating progress on the many development challenges still
facing so many countries today. As the leading pan-African
organisation working to promote greater participation of African women
in the productivity and direction of their societies, FAWE salutes the
International Women’s Day initiative.
Reflecting on gender and education research in Africa
For the past 19 years, FAWE’s policy advocacy and programme work have been informed by data on education trends in Africa. At FAWE, we recognise that reliable, topical data on gender in African education can only be generated through continuous research.
Improving the quality of teaching and learning: FAWE’s Gender-Responsive Pedagogy model
Image courtesy Nancy Wong for FAWEFAWE designed the Gender-Responsive Pedagogy (GRP) model to equip teachers and school management with knowledge, skills and attitudes to enable them to respond adequately to the learning needs of girls and boys. The GRP approach makes teachers more gender aware by training them in gender-sensitive classroom processes and practices which result in equal participation of boys and girls in the classroom as well as in the community.
New funding architecture: Strategies for ensuring FAWE’s sustainability
As the needs of the education sector in Africa intensify, compounded by challenges ranging from food security and climate change to conflict and displacement, the donor community is turning its attention from education to other social sectors. This poses a serious risk for sustainability to donor-funded organisations working in the education sector on the continent.
FAWE’s Centres of Excellence – a holistic approach to girls’ education
How can we ensure that efforts to improve education for girls in Africa produce sustained, cumulative impact?
9th FAWE Donors' Consortium Meeting, 2011
We mobilise financial, human and material resources for our programmes from various sources at the global, regional and national levels.
FAWE 2009 Annual report is posted, please look at it and feel free to send us your comments.
Girls’ School benefits from FAWE Sierra Leone’s Successful Partnerships
Waterloo School Girls Thank Grace Episcopal Church The Waterloo Junior Secondary School for Girls is a very good example of a successful partnership. It started with a partnership between the Sierra Leone Chapter of the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE SL) and the congregation of Grace Episcopal Church in Connecticut, USA.
8th FAWE Donors' Consortium Meeting
FAWE held its 8th Donors' Coniostium meeting on 26th and 27th February 2010, in Kampala, Uganda.