CAMFED new film on delivering youth-led mentorship at scale based on GPE KIX research

Part of this article was originally published on the CAMFED website.
Over the past three years, GPE KIX project Scaling a Youth-led Social Support and Mentorship Program to Improve Quality of Education for Marginalized Girls, implemented by CAMFED Tanzania in collaboration with the University of Dar es Salam and the University of Cambridge examined how governments of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe can adopt and sustainably scale core elements of the evidence-based Learner Guide program.
As the project is coming to an end, a new video showcases learning about the collaborative research process co-led by CAMFED and government partners in Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe being used to examine how the in-school youth-led mentorship program (Learner Guides) can benefit all students through integration into national school systems. In the video, government and other participants describe essential elements contributing to the effectiveness of the process which include:
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co-creation from design stages
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engagement of diverse ministries, ministry departments and other stakeholders
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experiential learning gained from participatory on-site research and regional exchange meetings.
“The most important aspect of this collaboration is the level of engagement. It has proved that government can work with non governmental institutions and be able to both implement a program that is not government [devised], and give it the seriousness that it needs because it’s changing lives… [It is] also bringing a different aspect of understanding that education is not just the subjects that are taught.” – David Musonda, Scaling Technical Committee Member, Zambia, speaking in the documentary film.
The film was made possible by support from the Global Partnership for Education and Knowledge Innovation Exchange (GPE KIX), a joint endeavor with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).