Plan-it Girls

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

Plan-It Girls is an innovative program that seeks to build self-efficacy and employment skills among adolescent girls while shifting prevailing gender norms. Plan-It Girls adopts an ecosystem approach to build agency and gender equality at the local level, leveraging a catalytic personal advancement curriculum tailored for girls attending Grades 9 and 11 at government schools in Delhi (urban context) and two districts of Jharkhand (rural context).

Based on a socio-ecological approach, the program includes principals and teachers, parents, boys, community members, business leaders and policymakers to create an environment to support girls and their aspirations.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

South Asia

India

Activity URL

https://www.icrw.org/research-programs/plan-it-girls/

Government Affiliation
Unknown
Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation
N/A
Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response
Unknown
Geographic Scope
National
Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  
Unknown
Areas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Other
  • Transition from school to work
Other skills
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning
  • Vocational training
Quality
  • Curricula/lesson plans
Cross-cutting areas
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Mentorship
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
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
  • Community leaders
  • Fathers
  • Mothers
  • Other caregivers
  • School administrators
Participants include
  • N/A
Program Approaches Back to Top
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
Curriculum/learning
  • Gender-sensitive curricula
Learning while working
  • Vocational training
Life skills education
  • Gender, rights and power
Policy/legal environment
  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
Reducing economic barriers
  • Financial literacy training
Social/gender norms change
  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
Women's empowerment programs
  • Advocacy/action
  • Empowerment training
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Reduced absenteeism
Cross-cutting goals
  • Changed social norms
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
Additional Information Back to Top
Primary Contact
Jessica Ogden
International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
Director, Business Development
jogden@icrw.org
+12027970007