Interventions to increase gender responsiveness in your school
- Organising gender sensitization activities for parents, community l members, teachers, girls and boys to raise their awareness and understanding of the need to support the education of girls and boys.
- Training teachers in the skills for making teaching and learning processes responsive to the specific needs of girls and boys.
- Empowering girls with skills for self-confidence, assertiveness, speaking out, decision making and negotiation for them to overcome gender-based constraints to their education.
- Empowering boys with skills to refrain from gender oppressive attitudes and practices such as macho-ism, bullying and sexual affronts and to develop the self-confidence needed to accept gender equality positively.
- Training the school community in the skills necessary to improve their reproductive health and protect themselves against sexually transmitted diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS.
- Training the school community to manage sexual maturation issues of both girls and boys with emphasis on menstruation management.
- Training teachers and students in guidance and counselling skills.
- Establishing guidance and counselling desks to provide services for the social and psychological development of girls and boys.
- Work with the community to provide support to needy girls and boys to ensure that they do not drop out of school.
- Providing gender responsive infrastructure including:
- Separate and adequate toilets for girls and boys.
- Adequate and clean water and sanitation, especially to enhance menstruation management and the overall health of the school community.
- Carrying out activities to promote the participation of girls in science and mathematics subjects.
- Establishing a gender responsive school management system that ensures gender equality in the governance and operation of the school. This may include collecting gender-disaggregated data on all aspects of teaching and learning.
- Involving the community and other stakeholders in monitoring and taking action to ensure improved enrolment, attendance and performance of girls and boys.
- Establishing a database to track student performance and welfare as well as the levels of gender responsiveness of all aspects of the school
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