FAWE, Mastercard Foundation conduct training of trainers sessions

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FAWE Africa Executive Director, Dr Martha Muhwezi, has reiterated the need to uphold implementation of the Technical Vocational and Education Training (TVET) to scale the number of skilled youth and create employment.

According to Dr Muhwezi, while Africa as a continent is promoting education for girls and boys, particularly those that are marginalised in line with the African Agenda 2063, TVET remains critical.

She was speaking recently on the sidelines of the closing of 4 days Training of Trainers on FAWE Models attended by over 40 participants from across Africa, with the aim of equipping them with relevant skills ahead of the Phase 11 program implementation.

She noted that the TOT training will act as the final validation exercise of the manual and pave the way for personnel who will be tasked with the responsibility of cascading the content across the project sites.

“We convened for the past four days to deliberate on the best way to implement our work as FAWE in Africa. We work across the continent, and we exist to ensure that there's gender equity and equality in education. we believe, as a network, that each time we keep improving on what we do,” Dr Muhwezi noted.

She added that the training deliberated on how best to support the young women and men in terms of mentorship and inducting them as they join higher institutions of learning, especially young people who come from marginalised communities.

“We have deliberated on safeguarding young people, providing a conducive environment, protecting them, and ensuring that they are not abused in any form. If we don't walk the journey with them, they're bound to be abused, and that's how some of the girls drop out of school.”

She further explained that one of the major programs they are focusing on under the Second Chance Program is promoting TVET among the young people. 

The implementation will now further be done in the next 7 years with the aim of training 10,500 young people, 20% boys and 80% girls with the main target being the disabled, internally displaced or refugee communities.

Meanwhile, Calvin Okello, the FAWE Uganda Education Coordinator, highlighted that the training of trainers will be used to validate the documents so that they are friendly to use.

“FAWE Uganda is working with 29 partner learning institutions, and we were looking at three models dubbed the Extended Orientation Models, a manual FAWE uses to prepare new students who have been enrolled into the program to prepare for higher institutions of learning,” Okello added.

FAWE innovation model is extensively prepared with many topics like entrepreneurship, managing finances, managing computers and life at institutions.

Eunice Masika, a FAWE Uganda alumni who joined the program in 2018, commends the efforts aimed at supporting the marginalised and enabling them to accomplish their dreams.

“I enrolled as a nurse. I studied at Jinja School of Nursing and midwifery and graduated as a registered nurse, and am currently working. I had lost hope, but now I am the first female to graduate in my family,” Masika explained.