School Banks for Girls (SBG)

The socio-cultural practices make the girl to be in a great vulnerability and risk, for reasons such as overload housework, distance to school, rape, harassment and other forms of human rights violation, a fact that which forces her to leave school so early.

Therefore ensuring financial support to a school teenager girl in oriented to education, this situation will be minimised.

This project will yield several results, but based on the single main result: economic support to girls to promote their progression to secondary education. Once financially self-sustaining girls, other transversal outcomes results are also expected: (1) discouragement of early marriages and reduction of girls’; (2) girls active participation in decision-making; (3) economic and social empowerment; (4) incentive and encouragement of other underage girls for school attendance; (5)  discouragement of socio-cultural practices that inhibit the girl, through community involvement in their school progress and in the management of their funds.

Usually in Mozambique, with more emphasis in the countryside, girls have been the most disadvantaged in various fields (social, economic and cultural) especially with higher failure of school progress rate against boys. The first reason is early marriages, because they are seen as sources of income to parents and guardians. A girl is bound to be a mere house servant. 

The social intervention measures to minimize this situation have been little or not available, especially in patrilineal areas where the bride price practice is the habit. As a result, in the first classes in primary school, most classrooms have the majority girls, but progressions to secondary level most classrooms are full of boys.

The perception of the project TEENAGER GIRL WE WANT is that main problems that girls face in communities such as of barrier to adequate education and their progress in schools is basically economic, which goes through socio-cultural norms. 

The project will be divided into two phases. The first will consist of a research phase, which will map adolescent girls in primary education, as well as the difficulties they face in their day-to-day (Creation of a Baseline). This done, the second phase (Intervention Phase) the project will create School Banks for Girls (SBG) in  schools, for groups identified through the assistance of bank institutions and local governments.

Each girl in the bank group will have her share. The girls with the best attendance and better grades will get part of their funds to conduct a profitable economic activity, with the help of the officials identified by the project. At the end of the year, the girls transiting to the secondary level will have a more of the funds for another economic activity and onward her admission to the secondary level. However, the girls that will fail class, but she did perform in attendance will have their funds, but very less comparing to the girl transiting to secondary level.

The main targets of this phase are: young girls aged 13-20, teachers, community leaders and local government authorities. 

We a setting up a Community Dialogue to understand they needs. On these dialogue GADC intends to  Felt they needs as the dreams and wants of that community and girls. What are they saying they want? Also intends to understand Expressed needs as are inferred by observing the actions of community members. What are they showing you they need? 

Each girl will be allocated their Quarterly funds according to her performance. These funds will be used for an economic activity to be held responsible by parents or guardians duly registered by the School Banks. In the second Quarter of the school year, the girls with the best attendance and better grades will get part of their funds to conduct a profitable economic activity, with the help of the officials identified by the project. At the end of the year, the girls transiting to the secondary level will have a more of the funds for another economic activity and onward her admission to the secondary level. 

This project will address the communities where the girls live, in order to raise awareness and include the very communities to make it feasible. This work will consist of carrying out community outreach, through consultations, meetings and radio programs to raise awareness on the need of girl’s school progression. 

The social intervention measures to minimize this situation (girls have been the most disadvantaged in various fields as social, economic and cultural) 
have been little or not available, especially in patrilineal areas where the bride price practice is the habit.

So, the School Banks for Girls (SBG) project that seeks to promote adolescent girls adequate education is unique as process.

The project will create School Banks for Girls (SBG) in  schools, for groups identified through the assistance of bank institutions and local governments.

We will map adolescent girls in primary education, as well as the difficulties they face in their day-to-day (Creation of a Baseline). Thus we identified the community needs ( Felt Needs and Expressed Needs ), it is our input. 

Following,  the families where the girls identified live will be duly registered in schools and institutions managing funds of teenage girls as a way to ensure their accountability at the moments when the funds are made available for beneficiaries is the product.                          

Intermediate  result: creation of School Banks. Girls attending Standard 6 identified as the most vulnerable will be grouped. Funds will be allocated for each group, where each girl will have access to these funds based on her educational achievement and / or demonstration of her interest to carry on with her studies, even if their pedagogical situation is not desirable. 

Impact: (1) discouragement of early marriages and reduction of girls’; (2) girls active participation in decision-making; (3) economic and social empowerment; (4) balance between boys and girls in higher education; (5) incentive and encouragement of other underage girls for school attendance; (6) discouragement of socio-cultural practices that inhibit the girl, through community involvement in their school progress and in the management of their funds.

In one year we serve 300 teenages, and in five year will serve 1500 teenagers. 

In this SBG process the girls with the best attendance and better grades will get part of their funds to conduct a profitable economic activity, with the help of the officials identified by the project. At the end of the year, the girls transiting to the secondary level will have a more of the funds for another economic activity and onward her admission to the secondary level.

SBG will be divided into two phases. The first will consist of a research phase, which will map adolescent girls in primary education, as well as the difficulties they face in their day-to-day (Creation of a Baseline). This done, the second phase (Intervention Phase) the project will create School Banks for Girls (SBG) in in schools, for groups identified through the assistance of bank institutions and local governments.

Funding for phase one is the priority. 

We are looking for partners to help to promote this pilot project, both funding and partnership.

One  Principal Investigator and Two field assistants locally identified through the assistance of communities and properly gone through induction - four months

One Project Manager and One Financial and Administrative Assistant.

The Project manager has 12 years of service and 8 years of project management experience. The Administrative and Financial manager has 5 years both in service and experience. This Project board they have a degree.

The Investigator is 10 years experienced in research and consultation and with a Master degree. The field assistants are  graduates in sociology and education.

GADC will increase the group of Stakeholders (Team Building and seeking collaborators, synergies), to take part in Project Board.

The project will create School Banks for Girls (SBG) in  schools, for groups identified through the assistance of bank institutions and local governments.

Girls identified as the most vulnerable will be grouped. Funds will be allocated for each group, where each girl will have access to these funds based on her educational achievement and / or demonstration of her interest to carry on with her studies, even if their pedagogical situation is not desirable. 

We will seek for donations and grants.But for now need to start a baseline study.

This is a difficult question. So, we think that SOLVE gives a unique opportunity that we think will leverage or solution in many ways and mainly to promote our project.

Our partnership goals is based on wish to learn. Join networks  will enhance more experience on what we do.We

We don't have in mind specific names, but we could match with ones in the area of Education, gender, children protection, disabilities.

Mozambique now in the northern part of the country is facing a heavy migration of population due to a increasing attacks and terrorism. 

Abuse against women, children and persons with disability is happening, and following the Kenneth Cyclone that hit the province in December 2019.

We will design a Economic Recovery plan.