Circles

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

Circles, in partnership with Lean-In, provides a supportive community for university students. Circles are self-driven initiatives by engineering students on campus who meet regularly to learn and grow together. WomEng provides discussion guidelines and educational resources to the circles. The result is confident engineering leaders who are better prepared for the workplace and are supporting each other to stem the drop-out rate for engineering.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://www.womeng.org/what-we-do

Government Affiliation
Non-governmental program
Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

Lean-In

Ministry Affiliation
Unknown
Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

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
Skills
  • STEM
Cross-cutting areas
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Youth

Age

18 - 25

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Tertiary
Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
  • Community mobilization
Mentoring/psychosocial support
  • Adult (non-teacher) mentors
  • Peer mentors
Women's empowerment programs
  • Empowerment training
  • Self-help groups (non-financial)
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased years of schooling
Cross-cutting goals
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms