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We will never share your email address with third parties. The Trust is part of a global movement that seeks to ensure that all children can access quality education. The success of the programme requires advocacy work to influence public sector policies and programmes as well as the active involvement of families, civil societies and the private sector. The programme strives to ensure that out-of-school-children are identified, enrolled and retained, progress optimally and achieve their full potential through quality formal and non-formal education.

Apart from this, good practice models for knowledge base in education have been developed, such as, Mara Out-of-school Children project in the Mara region of Tanzania. The Trust also promotes global and regional policy integration and harmonisation in the education sector on initiatives that support the scaling up of good practice and sharing of lessons.

Read More. The Mara Region was declared a priority area for the development of a unified intervention to address the needs of out of school children. Our Founder challenged the Mara community to form an alliance to undertake a more coordinated approach to tackle education challenges and child marriage in the region. Understanding that effective and relevant education requires a multi-dimensional and multi-sectoral approach, with the collaboration of governments, the Trust supports civil society networks to conduct advocacy, with a special focus in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia.

We undertake high-level and public advocacy to promote the development and implementation of education policies. The Trust also provides support to locally based civil society networks to enable them to access decision makers to enhance their advocacy efforts. In the Mara Region of Tanzania, the Trust, in partnership with Educate A Child, the Mara Alliance and the Mara Regional Government, is implementing a Complementary Basic Education COBET , an accelerated education programme aimed at reaching at least 20, out-of-school children through a multi-dimensional response to education, which includes competencies in literacy, numeracy life skills and income generation.

The strategy emphasises on the importance of effective country leadership as a common factor across countries making progress in improving the health of women, children and adolescents. The Trust set up a youth mentorship programme aimed at identifying promising youth advocates and build their capacity to carry out advocacy for improved adolescent health.

The strategies are based on the premises that;. The Mentorship Programme identifies and nurtures young and up-coming advocates who are poised to create social transformation in their communities and countries through their advocacy and action. The programme focuses mainly on education, health and nutrition, early childhood development and the fight giant child rights violations. Preferences is given to dynamic young school leavers who would benefit from mentorship which enables them to carve out a career in the social sciences field.

Through its Early Childhood Development ECD plan, The Trust will seek to put into action the new science and evidence Report that was presented by Lancet Series on Good and early development — the right of every child. This will be achieved by mobilising like-minded partners to contribute in the new science and evidence to reach all young children with ECD. In response to evidence showing the importance of political will in turning the tide against the current poor access and quality of ECD.

The Trust focused largely on advocacy activities in Mozambique during This included preparation for a high-level advocacy presentation that was made by our Founder on behalf of the Trust, the Civil Society Nutrition Alliance, United Nations agencies and other nutrition stakeholders in the country.

Introducing an interactive digital platform that will allow African children to learn about their rights. November 11, November 9, November 3, October 31, October 28, October 20, Why including more women-owned businesses in public procurement processes matter. September 7, The global activist, who co-wrote a "Call to Action" open letter on the impact of the crisis on African women, was speaking from her home country of Mozambique where she has been based after visiting family shortly before South Africa closed its borders.

Machel, who is also the founder of the Foundation for Community Development in Mozambique, specifically criticized the U. The WHO now is the instrument which the whole of the global community is rallying around to get guidance, to get the direction of how we should deal with the pandemic, and that's the moment he removes support to the WHO," she said, speaking before Trump's positive diagnosis for coronavirus.

Trump ordered a halt in U. That review then outlined what the White House perceived as "repeated missteps" during the early stages of the pandemic.