Results

• Constructed infrastructure in 21 CDSSs where the project-built classroom blocks, girls’ hostels, teachers’ houses, laboratories, and libraries among other infrastructure.
• Provided bursaries to about 3400 students of whom 2585 were girls and 815 were boys.
• Provided bicycles to 1166 mainly girl students commuting from distant places.
• Instituted girls’ clubs to provide a safe space for sharing experiences, expressing concerns, and inspiring one another.
• Sensitized the communities on their roles in ensuring girl child education, and in the process formulated Bylaws within the communities to ensure and safeguard girls’ education.
• Provided Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) to girls to ensure that they are aware of how their bodies function and so avoid childhood pregnancies and early marriages that lead to dropout.
• Trained teachers in Gender Responsive Pedagogy (GRP), code of conduct and re-admission policy among other areas.
• Established counselling centres where girls would receive psycho-social support if need be.
• Established Income Generating Activities (IGAs) to sustain bursary schemes for girls and vulnerable children at community levels.