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Swiss Centre for International Health
The strategies of the education system in preventing schoolgirl pregnancies
MoEVT - PASHA, Tanzania
By
Benedict Raymond Mangulu
29 July 2010, Blue Pearl Hotel
Dar es Salaam
“Enabling school students to make informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive health and
rights!”
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Overview
PASHA approach
Integration into Tanzanian education sector
Educational rationale
Learner-centred materials and methods
Achievements
Way forward
PASHA approach
• School counselling services•School counselors elected by students
•Equal numbers of males and females
•Receive training on basic counselling skills for psycho-social support and SRHR and HIV/AIDS education
•Deliver counselling services to both students and colleagues
•Become facilitators of Peer Educators training
•Offer supervision to peer educators
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PASHA approach
• Peer education•Peer educators elected by students
•Primary schools: grade 5-7 (about 12 -14 years old)
•Secondary schools: grade O-level to A-level (15 -20 years old)
•Ratio: 2 peer educators per 40 students (reality 2 per 80)
•Receive training on SRHR and HIV/AIDS knowledge and facilitation skills
•Conduct peer education sessions twice per week (about 1 hour per session)
•Work close together with school counselors (e.g. sharing experience on implementation)
•Use participatory methodology (learner-centered)
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Integration into Tanzanian Education Sector
• MoEVT•PASHA national and regional coordinators are civil servants of
MoEVT
•Close cooperation with departments of primary and secondary
education
•Working closely with units of cross-cutting issues (HIV/AIDS unit,
gender unit, guidance and counselling unit)
•Peer Education materials are approved by EMAC (Education Material
Approval Committee)
• Policy support
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Educational rationale
Constructivist learning theory:
That means: The learner is actively engaged in constructing knowledge
Constructivism emphasizes on two important dimensions:
•Learners actively acquire existing human knowledge (e.g language, cultural wisdom, values, technical skills etc.) as their own system of knowing
•Learners actively construct their own novel ways of knowing in the face of unfamiliar problems
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Learner-centered materials and methods
Shangazi Stella: Learner - centered peer education
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Achievements
High levels of knowledge (about sexuality and HIV/AIDS) amongst learners
Girls show similar career aspirations as boys
Girls empowerment in general
Positive influences on teenage pregnancy (further studies needed)
Increased knowledge on prevention against communicable diseases such as STI’s and HIV/AIDS.
Schools show high degree of ownership including buy in of communities
Nationwide rollout demanded by parliamentarians
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Way forward
PASHA activities will be integrated in workplan of MoEVT
national rollout as demanded by decision makers and officials of other regions and other key actors (Ruvuma and Iringa have started)
Support to the MoEVT to mobilize and raise funds
Identify and develop strategic partnerships
Developing new and revising existing materials
Documentation of best practices including essential minimal package
Asanteni sana!
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