Launch of A LOT Change III Project
U-Tena in partnership with The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) the launch ceremony of the 3rd phase of the “Advancing Learning Outcomes for Transformational Change (A LOT-Change) project”.
The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is as an non-profit, non-governmental international organization which is committed to conducting high-quality and policy relevant research on population, health, education and development issues facing sub-Saharan Africa
The A LOT-Change project is a community based after-school support program that has been running in Korogocho and Viwandani since 2013. It is born out of the need to have an integrated approach to improve learning outcomes, psychosocial wellbeing and behaviour among adolescent girls and boys. The first phase (2013-2015) only targeted adolescent girls in grades 6-8 and comprised of homework support in numeracy and literacy, life skills mentoring, parental counseling, and transition to secondary school subsidy. From the successes of the initial phase, the intervention was scaled up in phase 2 (2016-18) to include a leadership component and also target both adolescent boys and girls, with the other components remaining the same.
Phase III is a follow-up study of the phase II cohort who transitioned to secondary school in 2019 and will be testing the feasibility of implementing the A LOT-Change model among older adolescents and also check the sustainability of the effects observed in phase II. The intervention componets will include career awareness training, mentoring in soft skills, holiday homework support, digital literacy and parental counselling.
The chief guest of the Launch was Mr Hesbon Nyagaka who is the deputy of the director of regional education in Nairobi county Kenya.
This project that was launched on 1st August, 2019 at St Elizabeth primary school targets 498 high school students and their parents and will run up to 2021.
U-Tena in partnership with The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) the launch ceremony of the 3rd phase of the “Advancing Learning Outcomes for Transformational Change (A LOT-Change) project”.
The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is as an non-profit, non-governmental international organization which is committed to conducting high-quality and policy relevant research on population, health, education and development issues facing sub-Saharan Africa
The A LOT-Change project is a community based after-school support program that has been running in Korogocho and Viwandani since 2013. It is born out of the need to have an integrated approach to improve learning outcomes, psychosocial wellbeing and behaviour among adolescent girls and boys. The first phase (2013-2015) only targeted adolescent girls in grades 6-8 and comprised of homework support in numeracy and literacy, life skills mentoring, parental counseling, and transition to secondary school subsidy. From the successes of the initial phase, the intervention was scaled up in phase 2 (2016-18) to include a leadership component and also target both adolescent boys and girls, with the other components remaining the same.
Phase III is a follow-up study of the phase II cohort who transitioned to secondary school in 2019 and will be testing the feasibility of implementing the A LOT-Change model among older adolescents and also check the sustainability of the effects observed in phase II. The intervention componets will include career awareness training, mentoring in soft skills, holiday homework support, digital literacy and parental counselling.
The chief guest of the Launch was Mr Hesbon Nyagaka who is the deputy of the director of regional education in Nairobi county Kenya.
This project that was launched on 1st August, 2019 at St Elizabeth primary school targets 498 high school students and their parents and will run up to 2021.