The Foundation works with more than 100 partners in countries across Africa and in Canada. Together, we have improved the lives of more than 25 million people and their families.
Project: Second Chance Education for Young Mothers
Amount: $1.0 million
Countries: Tanzania
Work with Tanzanian Folk Development Colleges to provide accredited secondary education for out-of-school young mothers to support their transition to higher education and life after school.
Related Initiatives:
Project: Improving Educational Quality in Community Day Secondary Schools in Malawi (IEQ-CDSS)
Amount: $0.8 million
Countries: Malawi
Improve Malawian Community Day Secondary School by developing school leadership, teaching effectiveness, and employability and life skills.
A multi-stakeholder working group will document and disseminate promising approaches to inform evidence-based policymaking for improved access, quality and relevance of learning.
Related Initiatives:
Project: Youth Work-Readiness Project (APTE)
Amount: $15.1 million
Countries: Senegal
Develop and implement transferable skills programming in lower secondary schools by training 1,575 teachers and rolling out the Work-Readiness Now! curriculum in 200 schools. The project will reach 30,000 young people.
Reorient Senegal’s TVET system toward market-driven skills by integrating the Work-Readiness Now! curriculum and providing school-to-work transition support in 50 TVETs.
Build the capacity of local partners to offer and support employability and transitions programs. Document evidence of impact and generate lessons for stakeholders for the scale-up of employability skills across the country.
Related Initiatives:
Project: Improving Malawian Secondary School Access and Completion through Innovation
Amount: $1.0 million
Countries: Malawi
Increase secondary school retention and pass rates for 9,250 youth in 37 schools across four districts by introducing new and innovative models to address retention challenges and academic success in secondary education.
Related Initiatives:
Project: African Digital Schools Initiative (ADSI)
Amount: $7.6 million
Countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Tanzania
Improve student learning outcomes in science, math, and English subjects in secondary schools located in under-resourced regions of Kenya, Tanzania, and Côte d’Ivoire.
Increase capacity of 1,200 secondary school teachers to use computers and internet resources to improve science, math, and English subject instruction and student-centred teaching methods.
Related Initiatives:
Project: Building a Secondary Teacher Change-maker Movement to Address Uganda’s Learning Crisis
Amount: $4.9 million
Countries: Uganda
Improve student learning by implementing classroom innovations developed by 6,000 teachers and reaching 200,000 students in Uganda.
Increase teacher knowledge, motivation, and capacity.
Related Initiatives:
Project: STAR School Model for Community Day Secondary Schools in Malawi
Amount: $1.0 million
Countries: Malawi
Improve the quality of education at the Malawian Community Day Secondary School.
Related Initiatives:
Project: Quality Secondary Education for Refugee Youth
Amount: $1.8 million
Countries: Uganda, Kenya
Develop and deliver a lower secondary Accelerated Learning Program curriculum in Uganda and provide certified blended teacher training for unqualified refugee secondary school teachers in Kenya.
Related Initiatives:
To stay up to date with the Mastercard Foundation, sign up for our monthly newsletter. Get youth voices, impact stories and news and announcements all direct to your inbox.
*By signing up for the Mastercard Foundation’s newsletter, you accept our privacy policy.