[{"bbox": [144, 107, 1084, 162], "category": "Text", "text": "rates, resulting in improved skills and overall learning outcomes. In turn, the education system will thereby be contributing to sustainable development and green economic growth."}, {"bbox": [144, 173, 332, 201], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.3 Mainstreaming"}, {"bbox": [144, 212, 1085, 293], "category": "Text", "text": "A number of cross-cutting issues are at the core of the action, considering its inclusiveness and gender-based objectives, with an effort to leave no one behind. The action will endeavour to mitigate any possible unintended negative human rights impacts that may emerge as a result of the action."}, {"bbox": [144, 304, 1085, 412], "category": "Text", "text": "**Gender equality and girls' empowerment** will not only be mainstreamed into the results areas, activities and indicators but will also be a principal objective of the action. The action will seek to support girls' safe access to and retention in secondary schools through implementation of several strategies targeting the school and communities."}, {"bbox": [144, 423, 472, 450], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Climate change and environment"}, {"bbox": [144, 450, 1086, 584], "category": "Text", "text": "are issues pertinent to the education sector and will be integrated in all specific objectives. Issues of water and sanitation will be addressed in all infrastructure projects from gender-perspective, and environmentally friendly and climate resilient design and materials will be used in construction and rehabilitation of schools. Education on the environment and climate change will be integrated in secondary schools and vocational training."}, {"bbox": [144, 593, 1085, 675], "category": "Text", "text": "Malawi is highly exposed to rapid and slow onset natural disasters (floods, strong winds, earthquakes). Education on disaster preparedness, especially in relation to climate change hazards, will be integrated in secondary schools and vocational training."}, {"bbox": [144, 686, 1085, 794], "category": "Text", "text": "**Equality** considerations will be pursued especially for students with special educational needs and for people living in vulnerable situations and remote areas to ensure these can access secondary education. All new and rehabilitated school infrastructures will be accessible for persons with disabilities. Furthermore, local communities will be engaged on the right to education for all children."}, {"bbox": [144, 805, 1086, 939], "category": "Text", "text": "**Good governance and accountability** will be addressed through supporting the roadmap for decentralisation of secondary education. This will improve the governance and management capacity at school level, allow for greater exercise of local decision making and improvement in the quality and learning outcomes of secondary education. Policy dialogue will also advocate for gender-responsive budgeting and more equitable spending of public finances in the education sector."}, {"bbox": [144, 949, 1085, 1057], "category": "Text", "text": "**HIV & AIDS:** Malawi still has a significant HIV & AIDS problem which will be addressed in this programme through the life skills²¹ course and comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)²². The curriculum review will include these subjects and the CPDs will also enhance teacher competency to effectively deliver them."}, {"bbox": [144, 1096, 723, 1124], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.4 Contribution to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)"}, {"bbox": [144, 1134, 1086, 1425], "category": "Text", "text": "This action contributes primarily to the progressive achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 – Quality Education, in particular target 4.1 (ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes), target 4.5 (eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to relevant and effective learning outcomes), target 4a (build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all) and target 4c (substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers). The intervention also contributes to SDG 5 on gender equality and empowerment of women and girls. In addition, through the programme's development of climate resilient school infrastructure and integration of environment and WASH education, the initiative will address SDG 13 (climate change) and SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation)."}, {"bbox": [144, 1610, 661, 1634], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²¹ Delivered as a core subject in the secondary education curriculum."}, {"bbox": [144, 1634, 764, 1658], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²² To be delivered through grant partners working with the schools under result 1.2."}, {"bbox": [605, 1676, 627, 1697], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "14"}]