Institute of Adult Education

The Secondary Education for Out of School Adolescent Girls (SEOSAG) under the Education, Empowerment and Life Skills for Adolescent Girls and Young Children (EELAY) project of BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania (BMT) is undertaken in collaboration with Institute of Adult Education (IAE) and BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania, a non-governmental development organization. The project is funded by NORAD. The main target group of the project was marginalized adolescent girls who due to their socio-economic background put them at risk of dropping out of upper primary or lower secondary school. Hence, the project empowers girls who failed to complete their secondary education due to various reasons including financial constraints, poverty and early pregnancy to fulfil their goals. The project also empowers them with social skills that enhance their lives in their localities and it prepares them for continuing with their further studies for those pass national form four examinations. This project is important to help Tanzania to achieve Education for All (EFA) goals, Sustainable Development Goals 2030 (SDGs), the Tanzania Development Vision 2025 and Mkukuta Goals.

1. Objectives of the SEOSAG Project

The general objective of SEOSAG is to create system which will provide opportunity to out of school adolescent girls to access quality education which is free from social, political and legal barriers. Specifically it aims at;

i.Providing secondary education to adolescent girls which can enable them to solve life challenges

ii.Providing necessary qualifications for adolescent girls to join technical, vocational colleges as well as higher learning institutions,

iii.Reducing gender disparities in education between girls and boys, and

iv.Increasing access to secondary education to out of school adolescent girls in Tanzania.

2.Project Activities Implementation

Currently, this project is operating in Korogwe district and Tanga Municipality, Tanga region whereby 35 community -based study centres with 627 adolescent girls are established. 12 study centres out of 35 are located in Korogwe district with 210 registered learners and the remaining 23 centres in Tanga municipality. With 417 registered one. Mostly, these study centres are located in the government infrastructures specifically primary school buildings which are initiated in collaboration with leaders and communities of that areas. All study Centre’s activities are coordinated and supervised by 6 BRAC programme organizers and 35 community facilitators who received a training workshop conducted by IAE on how to handle adolescent girls as adult learners during teaching and learning process. In parallel to this, there are 140 face to face teachers were employed as part time teachers to facilitate in these centers during face to face sessions.

Table 1: Name of Study Centers in each District

S/N	Name of Study Centre located in Tanga Municipality		Name of Study Centre located in Korogwe district
1	Ndaoya	1.		Mazoezi Manundu
2	Mafuriko	2.		Mazoezi Mbeza
3	Rubawa	3.		Ngombezi
4	Kona Z	4.		Mtonga
5	Mikanjuni	5.		Bagamoyo
6	Martin Shamba	6.		Majengo
7	Ukombozi	7.		Kwamndolwa
8	Makorora	8.		Old Korogwe
9	Kombezi	9.		Kwamngumi
10	Kirare	10.		Kwakombo
11	Marungu	11.		Kwamsisi
12	Kismatui	12.		Magunga
13	Pongwe A
14	Pongwe B
15	GofuB
16	Gofu A
17	Mpirani
18	Kisosora
19	Kwakaheza
20	Magaoni
21	Kwanjeka
22	Kiomoni
23	Mwang’ombe

3.Mode of delivery of SEOSAG

The mode of delivery of project is full time and Open and Distance Learning (ODL) mode whereby learners meet with community facilitators in their respective study centres five times a week for about four hoursfrom 8.00 a.m to 12.00 p.m during the working day. They use open and distance learning materials (modules) to participate in their own learning process through self-directed instructional materials. Parallel to this, they also meet with subject experts for all seven subjects: Civics, History, Kiswahili, English, Geography, Biology and Basic Mathematics during face to face sessions for the purpose of making clarifications on the difficult and unclear areas from the modules.

4.Duration of the Project

The implementation of the project activities started on December, 2019 immediately after the signed of the MOU and will be ended on April, 2022.