Child-Friendly Schools

UNICEF's Child-Friendly Schools (CFS) programme in Mozambique aims to improve the quality of education provided in primary schools through the implementation of a multi-sectoral minimum quality package.

This minimum quality package promotes improvements in schools ranging from rehabilitation of damaged classrooms, provision of separate sanitation facilities for girls and boys and supporting child-centred teaching approaches in well-managed classrooms to health screening of children and life skills education, among many other crucial interventions.

This package is being implemented in all primary schools in seven model districts in Mozambique over four years (in the North, Centre and South of the country) with the goal of increasing learning outcomes for children as well as increasing the level of enrolment, retention and completion. Seven districts have been selected by the Ministry of Education and Culture to be part of this Initiative. The seven districts are located in the poorest provinces of the country, and have some of the lowest education indicators in Mozambique.