Girls - Participatory Approaches to Students Success (PASS) in Ghana

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I Inactive

Key Information

To increase participation and the quality of secondary education by providing disadvantaged girls with secondary level scholarships and Colleges of Education with targeted support to improve teacher education and management. This will benefit 81,000 girls and 38 Colleges of Education and improve gender parity and quality of teaching and learning. This contributes towards our MDGs by improving better access and gender parity by 2015.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Ghana

Activity URL

https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/projects/GB-1-202493/summary

Government Affiliation
Unknown
Years

2012 - 2021

Partner(s)

KPMG East Africa, Mott MacDonald Limited, Crown Agents Limited, British Council, Ministry of Education Ghana

Ministry Affiliation
N/A
Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response
Unknown
Geographic Scope
National
Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  
Unknown
Areas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
  • Secondary completion
Other skills
  • Rights/empowerment education
Quality
  • School quality
Cross-cutting areas
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Gender equality
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Youth

Age

11 - 15

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
Other populations reached
  • Teachers - female
Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top
Facilities construction/improvement
  • Construction/improvement of classrooms
Reducing economic barriers
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees
Teaching
  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)
Tutoring/strengthening academic skills
  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Literacy - outside the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - outside the classroom
  • STEM - in the classroom
  • STEM - outside the classroom
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism
Cross-cutting goals
  • Reduced child marriage