Girls' Education Program

  • F Funding Initiative/Portfolio

A Active

Key Information

We fund education for at-risk girls in seven low-income countries.  We identify, carefully vet, and fund small, niche schools for girls or scholarship programs for girls. Our education partners include Cambodian Village Fund, Daughters Rising (Thailand), Hands in Outreach (Nepal), Pardada Pardadi Educational Society (India), Uganda Empowers, Invisible Children Uganda, Miguel Angel Asturias Academy (Guatemala), and Our Little Roses (Honduras).  

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://www.gendap.org/educating-girls/

Government Affiliation
Non-governmental program
Years

2016 -

Partner(s)

Cambodian Village Fund, Daughters Rising, Hands in Outreach, Uganda Empowers, Invisible Children Uganda, Miguel Angel Asturias Academy, Our Little Roses

Ministry Affiliation
Unknown
Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response
Not changed
Geographic Scope
Global / regional
Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  
Unknown
Areas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
  • Post-secondary
  • Primary completion
  • Secondary completion
Skills
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
Cross-cutting areas
  • Early/child marriage
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Mentorship
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Mothers, Youth

Age

4 - 22

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Pre-school
  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational
  • Tertiary
Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include
  • Homeless/street children
  • Orphans and vulnerable children
  • People living with HIV/AIDS
Program Approaches Back to Top
Access to school
  • Expanding boarding opportunities
  • Improving transportation
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
  • Mothers' clubs
Curriculum/learning
  • Gender-sensitive curricula
Educational Technology
  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital reading materials (non-textbook)
  • Digital skills/literacy (including coding)
Food/nutrition
  • Other nutritional supplementation
  • School feeding
Health and childcare services
  • Adolescent-friendly health services
  • HIV prevention
  • HIV treatment and care
  • Malaria prevention
  • Mobile clinics (testing, vaccines, etc.)
  • Referrals to health services
  • School-based clinics
Increased availability of learning materials
  • Increased availability of Fiction/non-fiction books (digital)
  • Textbooks (paper)
Learning while working
  • Vocational training
Life skills education
  • Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)
  • Gender, rights and power
  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building
Menstrual hygiene management
  • Educating girls about menstruation
  • Sanitary product distribution
Mentoring/psychosocial support
  • Adult (non-teacher) mentors
  • Peer mentors
  • School-based counselors
  • Teachers as mentors
Other
  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)
  • Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)
  • Sports programs
Policy/legal environment
  • System-wide review and reform
Reducing economic barriers
  • Addressing cost of school supplies
  • Financial literacy training
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees
  • Uniforms
School-related gender-based violence
  • Safe transportation
  • 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
Teaching
  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
Tutoring/strengthening academic skills
  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - outside the classroom
  • STEM - in the classroom
  • Tutoring - general
Water and sanitation
  • Improved water access
Women's empowerment programs
  • Empowerment training
  • Leadership training
  • Self-help groups (financial, including savings and credit groups)

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Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased literacy
  • Increased numeracy
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased test scores
  • Increased years of schooling
Cross-cutting goals
  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved nutrition
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • More equal power in relationships
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced intimate partner violence
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS
Additional Information Back to Top
Primary Contact
Beverly B. Hill
Gendercide Awareness Project
Founder & President
beverly@gendap.org
+12142650611