Keeping Girls in School

  • A Advocacy Campaign/Project

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

Girls in Pakistan face tremendous challenges to completing their education. Poverty, prejudice, violence, and an underfunded school system combine with one another so that less than one in five girls are still going to school by the ninth grade. The COVID-19 pandemic is making these inequalities worse.

In response, Right To Play and Penny Appeal Canada are coming together as partners to launch #ForHer: Keeping Girls in School to empower 16,000 at-risk girls in Pakistan to keep learning and complete their education.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

South Asia

Pakistan

Activity URL

https://righttoplayusa.org/en/news/keeping-girls-in-school/

Government Affiliation
Non-governmental program
Years

2020 -

Partner(s)

Penny Appeal Canada

Ministry Affiliation
Unknown
Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response
New for COVID-19
Geographic Scope
National
Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  
Unknown
Areas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment
Cross-cutting areas
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
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
Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top
Women's empowerment programs
  • Advocacy/action
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
Cross-cutting goals

Not applicable or unknown