Impact(Ed) International’s flagship ‘edu-tainment’ series, My Better World, follows six African teens as they navigate the complex challenges of school, family, and friendship. Episode themes include early marriage, female genital mutilation, and sexual harassment while addressing skills and attitudes such as communication, negotiation, and resilience.
The series is a unique tool included in Impact(Ed)’s life skills education and mentorship model, delivered to school children aged 10-15, which includes engagement of boys, parents and communities to enable an environment for girls to exercise agency and develop the skills they need to succeed in school and in life.
Theory of Change
The underlying theory of change assumes that with Impact(ED)’s full package intervention, project activities and outputs will lead to the following intermediate outcomes for children: access to quality mentorship, a more enabling school, community and home environment for girls, and girls with skills and attitudes for success at school and in life. Together, these will lead to impact outcomes of increased girls’ self-efficacy, and educational aspirations. In the longer run, the theory of change posits that these outcomes will contribute to increased agency, educational attainment and improved life opportunities for girls. The theory of change is grounded in a gender-transformative approach that directly tackles gender and social inequalities such as unequal division of labour, child labour, gender-based violence and early marriage based on learning from Impact(Ed)’s MBW-based interventions to date.
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