The project targets 264 teachers (147F; 117M), 251 school committee members (118F; 133M), 15,917 students (7,967F; 7,950M), and 2,500 parents/community members (1,650F; 1,150M). It achieves this by creating safer school environments, strengthening teacher capabilities, and promoting active involvement from parents and communities in the education of both girls and boys.

Project schools were selected based on multiple challenges, such as: 

• Shortages of infrastructure, including classrooms, desks, teachers’ housing, and sanitation facilities (toilets), and 
• Specific educational barriers, such as low community valuation of schooling and poor access among marginalised ethnic groups like the Datooga and Hadzabe minority ethics groups, inadequate in-service capacity building programme for teachers; long distances to schools; poor teacher-pupils ratio; drop out of children from schools, especially boys; and climate change effects as a result of land degradation, deforestation and mismanagement of natural resources leading to prolonged instances of drought or floods.