Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Removing barriers to education encourages retention, reduces risk behavior and improves later employment opportunities. Preliminary results suggest that even this small investment reduces teen pregnancy rates.

Project Message

The children who had not been coming to school suddenly came to school. You could see the gratitude on their faces. It's something that you have done that really touches their lives.
- Susan Nduku King'oo, Project Field Officer

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Lisa Carter,
Officer Manager
85 Willow Street
Building B, Second Floor
New Haven, CT 06511
United States
203.772.2216
Email:

Project Sponsor

Innovations for Poverty Action

Organization

Learn more about Innovations for Poverty Action and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Kenya and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 16, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 08, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Some Results!

By Stephanie Aquila - Human Resources, January 16, 2008 05:53 PM

The IPA team has been successfully following up the schooling progress, self-reported sexual behavior, and childbearing outcomes of more than 70,000 pupils in 328 primary schools.
IPA has held an operational consultation after each round of data collection to review the program design and adjust or revise the evaluation tools if needed. This high level of integration ensures that the findings of the evaluation are directly available for policymakers in the Kenyan government. To enable them to truly combine scientific rigor with local knowledge and experience, and to enhance the quality of the collaboration, IPA trained International Child Support Africa(ICS) staff on a day-to-day basis in the methodology of randomized evaluation and the related skills of designing surveys, data collection, data management, and so on, thereby building a local monitoring and evaluation team from the ground by hiring and training locals. The Monitoring and Evaluation Team of ICS now has 70 members, including operations managers, surveyors, and data quality assurance specialists, whose expertise has been instrumental in the success of the project.

We have found that:
1) After two years, teacher training increased students’ tolerance toward people with HIV/AIDS.

2) Girls exposed to the program were more likely to be married to the fathers of their children.

3) Reducing the cost of education by paying for school uniforms reduced dropout rates, teen marriage, and childbearing.

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• courtesy of Aude Guerucci (www.audeguerucci.com)

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