Girl Capital
- F Funding Initiative/Portfolio
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Key Information
Girl Capital is a global strategy and integral component of CIFF’s pivot towards realizing the demographic dividend. Starting in India and building on current investments, it will focus on specific catalytic points that will enable girls 5-25 years to stay in school, choose if, and when, to get married and to start a family, improve not just their living standards and life outcomes but also those of their children. This will potentially break the intergenerational cycle of poverty of injustice on the planet. Our Theory of Change focuses on six key actions – education, life skills, technical and vocational training, income generation and social norm changes. We are confident a combination of these will have a direct impact on child marriage, age of first pregnancy and female labour force participation. We also anticipate progress across CIFF’s portfolio, such as lower instances of low birth weight, improved adolescent sexual and reproductive health indicators and reduced trafficking. The ultimate impact is agency to negotiate choices and make decisions, as well as resources and earnings to reduce poverty and inequality.
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
Global, South Asia
India
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2020 - 2022
Partner(s)
Not applicable or unknown
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownCOVID-19 Response
UnknownGeographic Scope
NationalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
UnknownAreas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
- Primary completion
- Primary enrollment
- Primary to secondary transition
- Secondary completion
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
- Other academic performance-related
Cross-cutting areas
- Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Early/child marriage
- Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
- Empowerment
- Gender equality
- Mentorship
- 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
5 - 25
School Enrolment Status
Some in school
School Level
- Lower primary
- Upper primary
- Lower secondary
- Upper secondary
- Vocational
Other populations reached
- Other community members - female
- Other family members
Participants include
- Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
Program Approaches Back to Top
Access to school
- Extending school hours
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
- Community mobilization
- General awareness-raising/community engagement
- Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments
Curriculum/learning
- Remedial education/skills
Health and childcare services
- Sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning)
Learning while working
- Apprenticeship/internship
- Vocational training
- Work-study
Life skills education
- Gender, rights and power
- Negotiation skills
- Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
Mentoring/psychosocial support
- Adult (non-teacher) mentors
Other
- Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)
Policy/legal environment
- Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
- Developing/promoting new laws/policies
- Public-private partnerships
Reducing economic barriers
- Financial literacy training
- Reducing/eliminating school fees
- Scholarships/stipends for school fees
- Vouchers/grants
School-related gender-based violence
- Safe and welcoming schools
- Safe transportation
Social/gender norms change
- Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
- Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents
Women's empowerment programs
- Advocacy/action
- Empowerment training
- Leadership training
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
- Increased enrolment in primary school
- Increased grade attainment
- Increased primary school completion
- Increased progression to secondary school
- Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
- Increased school completion (general)
- Increased school enrolment (general)
- Increased secondary school completion
- Increased secondary school enrolment
Cross-cutting goals
- Changed social norms
- Improved financial literacy and savings
- Improved maternal, newborn, and/or child health (MNCH)
- Improved sexual and reproductive health
- Increased advocacy/civic engagement
- Increased agency and empowerment
- Increased employment/job-related skills
- Increased knowledge of rights
- More equitable gender attitudes and norms
- Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Reduced child marriage
- Reduced poverty/increase household well-being