In 2011 Plan International UK secured a Programme Partnership Agreement (PPA) with the Department for International Development (DFID). This strategic funding has been used to develop the Building Skills for Life Programme. The programme seeks to empower adolescent girls and address the unique challenges they face in accessing quality education across seven countries: Cambodia, Mali, Malawi, Kenya, Pakistan, Rwanda and Zimbabwe.
After three years of programming, in May 2014 a new Outcome Monitoring System (OMS) was developed for the PPA programme. OMS combines quantitative with qualitative data sourced from all the programme’s stakeholders on all the factors identified as key barriers to adolescent girls’ education. The inclusion of more child-centred methodologies for collecting data is a key feature of OMS, which has helped to lay the foundations for piloting child-led evaluations (CLE) in three of the participating countries: Cambodia, Zimbabwe and Kenya. This particular report presents the methodology and findings from the CLE pilot in Zimbabwe.
