Girls' Education Program

  • F Funding Initiative/Portfolio

A Active

Key Information

We fund education for at-risk girls in seven low-income countries.  We identify, carefully vet, and fund small, niche schools for girls or scholarship programs for girls. Our education partners include Cambodian Village Fund, Daughters Rising (Thailand), Hands in Outreach (Nepal), Pardada Pardadi Educational Society (India), Uganda Empowers, Invisible Children Uganda, Miguel Angel Asturias Academy (Guatemala), and Our Little Roses (Honduras).  

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://www.gendap.org/educating-girls/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2016 -

Partner(s)

Cambodian Village Fund, Daughters Rising, Hands in Outreach, Uganda Empowers, Invisible Children Uganda, Miguel Angel Asturias Academy, Our Little Roses

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Not changed

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Post-secondary
  • Primary completion
  • Secondary completion

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Early/child marriage
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Mentorship

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Mothers, Youth

Age

4 - 22

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Pre-school
  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational
  • Tertiary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

  • Homeless/street children
  • Orphans and vulnerable children
  • People living with HIV/AIDS

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Expanding boarding opportunities
  • Improving transportation

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
  • Mothers' clubs

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula

Educational Technology

  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital reading materials (non-textbook)
  • Digital skills/literacy (including coding)

Food/nutrition

  • Other nutritional supplementation
  • School feeding

Health and childcare services

  • Adolescent-friendly health services
  • HIV prevention
  • HIV treatment and care
  • Malaria prevention
  • Mobile clinics (testing, vaccines, etc.)
  • Referrals to health services
  • School-based clinics

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Increased availability of Fiction/non-fiction books (digital)
  • Textbooks (paper)

Learning while working

  • Vocational training

Life skills education

  • Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)
  • Gender, rights and power
  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Educating girls about menstruation
  • Sanitary product distribution

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Adult (non-teacher) mentors
  • Peer mentors
  • School-based counselors
  • Teachers as mentors

Other

  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)
  • Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)
  • Sports programs

Policy/legal environment

  • System-wide review and reform

Reducing economic barriers

  • Addressing cost of school supplies
  • Financial literacy training
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees
  • Uniforms

School-related gender-based violence

  • Safe transportation
  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - outside the classroom
  • STEM - in the classroom
  • Tutoring - general

Water and sanitation

  • Improved water access

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training
  • Leadership training
  • Self-help groups (financial, including savings and credit groups)

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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 literacy
  • Increased numeracy
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased test scores
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved nutrition
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • More equal power in relationships
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced intimate partner violence
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Beverly B. Hill
Gendercide Awareness Project
Founder & President
beverly@gendap.org
+12142650611