Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative (PCTFI) – Cohort 3

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Key Information

The Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative was designed to support marginalized girls who face multiple social and economic barriers to attending school. These include girls from ethnic minorities or excluded castes; slum dwellers; girls at high risk of sexual exploitation, early marriage, and other forms of gender-based violence; the extremely poor; adolescent migrants; and rural girls in areas severely affected by climate change.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

East Asia & Pacific, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

Cambodia, India, Kenya, Mali, Nepal, Rwanda, Zimbabwe

Activity URL

https://www.care.org/our-work/education-and-work/education/patsy-collins-trust-fund-initiative/

Government Affiliation
Non-governmental program
Years

2015 - 2021

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation
Unknown
Funder(s)

Patsy Collins Trust Fund, Sunbridge Foundation

COVID-19 Response
Unknown
Geographic Scope
Global / regional
Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  
Unknown
Areas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Other
  • Transition from school to work
Other skills
  • Financial literacy
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning
  • Vocational training
Skills
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
Cross-cutting areas
  • Climate change
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational
Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top
Life skills education
  • Gender, rights and power
Reducing economic barriers
  • Financial literacy training
  • Savings accounts
School-related gender-based violence
  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
Tutoring/strengthening academic skills
  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Literacy - outside the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - outside the classroom
Women's empowerment programs
  • Empowerment training
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
Cross-cutting goals
  • Changed social norms
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
Additional Information Back to Top
Primary Contact
Katherine Begley
CARE
Senior Technical Advisor for Education, CARE USA
katherine.begley@care.org