Keeping Girls in School

  • A Advocacy Campaign/Project

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

Girls in Pakistan face tremendous challenges to completing their education. Poverty, prejudice, violence, and an underfunded school system combine with one another so that less than one in five girls are still going to school by the ninth grade. The COVID-19 pandemic is making these inequalities worse.

In response, Right To Play and Penny Appeal Canada are coming together as partners to launch #ForHer: Keeping Girls in School to empower 16,000 at-risk girls in Pakistan to keep learning and complete their education.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

South Asia

Pakistan

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2020 -

Partner(s)

Penny Appeal Canada

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

New for COVID-19

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment

Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response
  • Emergencies and protracted crises

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

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)

Cross-cutting goals

Not applicable or unknown