Our Sisters to School

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

Through the Our Sister's to School Program, Women's Global Education Project designs and implements activities targeting girls, boys, parents and entire communities to support girls' education.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://womensglobal.org/girls-education-leadership/

Government Affiliation
Non-governmental program
Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation
Unknown
Funder(s)

Chicago Community Trust, United States Department of State, Caterpillar Foundation, Manakki Foundation, Neutrogena, LuminAid, Johnson & Johnson, Global Giving, IBM

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
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion
Other skills
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
Cross-cutting areas
  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Early/child marriage
  • Empowerment
  • Female genital mutilation/cutting
  • HIV and STIs
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Youth

Age

5 - 19

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
Other populations reached
  • Boys (both in school and out of school)
  • Fathers
  • Mothers
  • Other community members - female
  • Other community members - male
Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
Health and childcare services
  • Adolescent-friendly health services
  • HIV prevention
  • HIV treatment and care
Life skills education
  • Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)
  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
Other
  • Other activities to end FGM (not captured above)
Reducing economic barriers
  • Addressing cost of school supplies
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees
School-related gender-based violence
  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct
  • Violence prevention curriculum/activities for students
Social/gender norms change
  • Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Work with community leaders
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 HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS