USAID Pakistan Gender Equality

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) works with the Government of Pakistan and development partners to address gender inequality, which affects women of all ethnic groups and socio-economic strata. The USAID Pakistan program has develop the following actions: (i) provided health, legal, and counseling services to approximately 61,000 female survivors of Gender Based Violence (GBV); (ii) Awarded more than 6,600 higher education scholarships to young women in Pakistan; (iii) Supported the Federal Ministry of Human Rights to train 196 public prosecutors on laws protecting women’s rights, gender issues, and legal protections for GBV survivors; (iv) Trained and financed more than 50,000 women entrepreneurs; (v) Facilitated national identity card registration for approximately 1.5 million women to promote women’s voting rights; (vi) Helped train almost 16,000 female political party representatives. Also, to ensure more girls have the opportunity to pursue education, USAID partnered with the Sindh government to improve the learning environment for female students in Sindh public schools and rehabilitated girls’ primary schools in the Newly Merged Districts. Additionally, USAID partnered with the Government of Pakistan to train female primary and secondary school teachers on improved teaching methodologies and provide access to reading materials to female students in grades one and two across Pakistan.


Location(s)

South Asia

Pakistan

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2020 - 2022

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Federal Ministry of Human Rights, Sindh government, Ministry of Industries & Production’s Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Post-secondary

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School facilities
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Civics education

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Other community members - female, Teachers - female

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Tertiary

Other populations reached

  • Policymakers
  • School administrators
  • Youth

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of schools

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Other

  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies

Reducing economic barriers

  • Financial literacy training
  • Income-generating activities

Teaching

  • Hiring more female teachers
  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy

Water and sanitation

  • Construction/improvement of sex-specific toilets

Women's empowerment programs

  • Leadership training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms