JSI’s World Education Awarded ‘Eu Sou Capaz’ Technical Assistance Activity in Mozambique
January 30th, 2026 | News
Alberto Domingos interviews community leaders in Sofala province during the pilot of the Community Leader Mapping Tool.
The Government of Mozambique’s National Youth Institute has awarded World Education, a JSI Initiative, the Eu Sou Capaz Technical Assistance and Training Activity. Supported by the World Bank, this award is part of the broader Empowering Adolescent Girls to Earn and Read (EAGER) strategic vision across Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Madagascar. This activity aims to scale government-led interventions addressing social, economic, and behavioral factors that drive school dropout rates among girls. Specifically, World Education will focus on two main goals:
- Retention: helping girls stay in school and successfully complete their education.
- Safe Spaces: providing education for girls who have previously dropped out of school due to pregnancy, early marriage, or economic pressures.
Eu Sou Capaz is about more than access—it is about removing the invisible barriers that stop girls from thriving,” says Obert Darara, JSI’s World Education Country Lead in Mozambique. “By integrating social and behavior change with human-centered design, we are supporting the National Youth Institute to redesign systems around girls’ realities, ensuring enrollment leads to achievement.”
This approach addresses the root causes of school dropout and teenage pregnancy, such as harmful socio-cultural norms and gender-based violence, through community mobilization, material support, and a transformative life-skills education.
Alberto Domingos conducts one-on-one interviews with community leaders in the Sofala Province during the pilot of the Community Leader Mapping Tool.
The Eu Sou Capaz model draws on World Education’s 15-year history of regional impact. To date, World Education has:
- Trained 40,000+ teachers and developed national supervision models reaching 1.3 million students.
- Established over 1,000 safe spaces.
- Built poverty and HIV resilience for more than 300,000 individuals.
- Provided direct material support to over 116,000 children and adolescents.
By applying this data-driven expertise, World Education ensures that Eu Sou Capaz remains both nationally scalable and responsive to the specific needs of Mozambican communities.