United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and Forum for African Women Educationists in Malawi (FAWEMA) have developed a gender responsive pedagogy in a radical approach to mainstream gender and gender responsive teaching and learning in public schools. The pedagogy touches on basic idea about the role of gender in the education sector, specifically in schools. UNICEF […]
Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) Malawi and Forum for African Women Educationalists-Malawi chapter (FAWEMA) have donated clothes and teaching and learning materials to primary schools and floods victims of Mtandire in Lilongwe. Hundreds of families from Mtandire living closer to Lingadzi river were left homeless on February, 10 2017 when heavy rains caused […]
The Forum for African Women Educationalists in Malawi (FAWEMA), says the keeping girls in school initiative is on the right track realizing a tremendous reduction of female pupil drop out recently. Speaking in an interview on the sidelines of a function called ‘Weekend Advocacy, Girls Space, School experience’ held in Nsanje, on Saturday, the forum’s […]
The Forum for African Women Educationalists in Malawi (FAWEMA) says it introduced cash transfer programme for needy adolescent girls in primary schools to help them complete their primary education. According to Nelly Mngwaluko, FAWEMA project manager for the cash transfer programme for Mchinji, Malawi has fewer girls in school compared to boys because of many […]
In an effort to improve girls participation and access to education in the country, Save the Children through the Forum for African Women Educationalists in Malawi (FAWEMA) has rolled out a Reduction Teenage Pregnancies in Malawi Project is six districts. The project is also aimed at increasing girls’ access to quality sexual and reproductive healthy […]
Forum for African Women Educationists in Malawi (Fawema) has introduced an interactive mobile phone text message (SMS) initiative aimed at addressing issues of violence against girl-child. The project ‘Text for Change’ is a joint initiative by Fawema, International Institute of Communication and Development (IICD) and Edukans, and is currently being implemented on pilot phase at […]
A new way of using tablet computers in schools could change how children are taught at a primary in Lilongwe. Netherlands based Institute for International Communications Development (IICD) in partnership with Forum for African Women Educators (FAWEMA) Malawi Chapter and Association for Christian Educators in Malawi (ACEM) have launched a 70,000 Euro Tablet computer project to […]
Malawi has finally produced a strategic education document that will guide interventions for increased girls’ enrolment and retention as well as creating a conducive environment for them to excel in their education. The document known as National Girls’ Education Strategy (NGES), is set for launch alongside the National Girls’ Education Communication Strategy, next Tuesday, May […]
Forum for African Women Educationists in Malawi (Fawema) has intensified its drive in improving quality of basic education in the country through provision of life skills to pupils and commissioning of modern computer laboratories in primary schools. Over the weekend, Fawema engaged pupils from primary schools in Lilongwe rural east in Sexual Reproductive Health Rights […]
The Forum for African Women Educationists in Malawi (FAWEMA) has taken an extensive drive to curb girl-child school absenteeism by supporting girls’ education and construction of washrooms in primary schools under Star School Model project. FAWEMA is implementing the project that has seen girls modern washrooms constructed at Mchuchu, Kalumbu and Mwatibu Primary Schools in […]
Forum for African Women Educationalists in Malawi (Fawema) has started applying use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in primary schools to improve quality in provision of basic education. Under the project Connect for Change, Fawema is establishing ICT laboratories in primary schools and Teachers Training Colleges as well as applying a mobile phone SMS […]
There is hope that girls’ enrolment in primary schools in the Malawi’s northern region district of Karonga will increase courtesy of Gender Responsive Pedagogy, an initiative of Forum for African Women Educationalist in Malawi (FAWEMA). This came to light at Karonga Demonstration Primary School where it has shown that more girls are attending school and have […]