#GIRLSEDU

  • A Advocacy Campaign/Project

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

The #GirlsEdu blog series is a collection of posts discussing girls’ education and the challenges and opportunities girls face around the world. Some of the authors are former Echidna Global Scholars, who studied how to improve girls’ education at Brookings before returning to their home countries to implement their research.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://www.brookings.edu/series/girlsedu/

Government Affiliation
Non-governmental program
Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

Ministry Affiliation
Unknown
Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response
Adapted
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
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion
Other
  • Early childhood development
Other skills
  • Financial literacy
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
Quality
  • School-related gender-based violence
Skills
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • Other academic performance-related
  • STEM
Cross-cutting areas
  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Community sensitization
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Early/child marriage
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Other
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)
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

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

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top
Life skills education
  • Gender, rights and power
Social/gender norms change
  • Media campaigns
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased years of schooling
Cross-cutting goals
  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved health - other