Higher Education Readiness (HER)

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Key Information

The Institute of International Education’s Higher Education Readiness program (HER) provides young women in secondary school from underserved communities with a pathway to university. HER provides 100 girls entering the 11th grade with scholarship support to help them complete their secondary education and equip them with the tools needed to continue on to university.

Lead Implementing Government(s)

Ethiopia

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia

Activity URL

https://www.iie.org/programs/her/

Government Affiliation
Non-governmental program
Years

2013 -

Partner(s)

Let Girls Lead

Ministry Affiliation
Unknown
Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response
Not changed
Geographic Scope
National
Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  
Unknown
Areas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
  • Post-secondary
  • Secondary completion
Other skills
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning
Quality
  • Teacher training
Skills
  • Literacy
Cross-cutting areas
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • HIV and STIs
  • Mentorship
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school

Age

15 - 24

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Upper secondary
  • Tertiary
Other populations reached
  • Fathers
  • Mothers
  • Other community members - female
  • Other community members - male
Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top
Access to school
  • Improving transportation
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
  • Community mobilization
Health and childcare services
  • HIV prevention
  • Sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning)
Increased availability of learning materials
  • Textbooks (unspecified)
Life skills education
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building
Policy/legal environment
  • Public-private partnerships
Reducing economic barriers
  • Addressing cost of school supplies
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees
  • Uniforms
School-related gender-based violence
  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
Social/gender norms change
  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents
Tutoring/strengthening academic skills
  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Tutoring - general
Women's empowerment programs
  • Leadership training

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Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased literacy
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased test scores
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Teachers and learners have the knowledge and skills to promote gender equality
Cross-cutting goals
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS