Guinea
Projects in Guinea
Agriculture
Project Goal:
Smallholder-farm households achieve food and nutrition security, sustainable livelihoods, and increased resilience.
Project Objectives:
- Increase smallholder farmers’ capacity to improve the diversity, productivity, and/or sustainability of their agricultural production
- Increase smallholder farmers’ capacity to generate agriculture-related income
- Increase the capacity of women of reproductive age (WRA) and/or key household decision makers to increase the dietary diversity of households
Education
Project Goal:
Our Education Project's goal is to help Guinean students attain math and science skills and opportunities to become problem solvers and innovators.
Project Objectives :
For students:
- Increase achievement of students in Math and/or Science.
For teachers:
- Increase the capacity of teachers to use gender-equitable teaching practices in the classroom
- Increase the capacity of teachers in general, critical thinking, and/or STEM teaching skills
Learning Environment and Community:
- Increase the ability of community members to support students’ access to learning
- Increase students’ and teachers’ access to teaching/learning materials and resources that use the STEM approach
Health
Project Goal:
Peace Corps Guinea's Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health Project is designed to support ending preventable child and maternal deaths
Project Objectives:
- Increase the knowledge and skills of women and men to adopt practices that contribute to a healthy pregnancy, safe delivery, good postpartum health, and a healthy newborn;
- Increase the knowledge and skills of child caregivers to improve the health of children under 5 and to prevent childhood illnesses;
- Increase the knowledge and skills of adolescents (10-24) to improve their health and well-being through health and life skills education;
- Build capacity of health workers’ to adopt practices that strengthen the community health system and services.