Girls' Education & Empowerment

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

Our Girls’ Education and Empowerment Lab area explores how best to empower girls to grow into strong women. Our GEE Lab focuses on how to keep girls in school, arm them with the knowledge and resources they need, engage boys and men as partners in girls’ empowerment, and encourage leadership among girls.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://www.womenstrong.org/topics/girls-education-empowerment/

Government Affiliation
Non-governmental program
Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

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
Attainment
  • Primary completion
  • Secondary completion
Other
  • Transition from school to work
Cross-cutting areas
  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Early/child marriage
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

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

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top
Mentoring/psychosocial support
  • Peer mentors
School-related gender-based violence
  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
Social/gender norms change
  • Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents
Women's empowerment programs
  • Empowerment training
  • Self-help groups (non-financial)
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased years of schooling
Cross-cutting goals
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage