Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Education

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Key Information

In partnership with the Egyptian Government, USAID promotes gender equality and women’s empowerment in a wide range of sectors and activities. USAID’s gender equality and women’s empowerment programs focus on youth, women of low socio-economic background or status, people with disabilities, survivors of violence against women and girls, and victims of trafficking. Supporting Women and Girls’ Education: USAID’s basic, technical, and higher education programs improve the learning, skills, and workforce readiness of all students, including women and girls. Scholarship programs expand access to high-quality education for youth with high financial need, and intergenerational literacy programming in rural areas supports girls and their mothers to learn to read. Building on decades of investments in voluntary family planning and maternal health, USAID supports Egypt’s National Family Planning Program to improve the quality of voluntary family planning services and strengthen decision-making and policy formation at the national level. USAID also works with private sector partners, such as private pharmacists and apparel manufacturers, to provide training on family planning services and peer mentoring for factory workers. Also, innovative USAID programs, including establishing nontraditional schools and providing scholarships to more than 185,000 girls, helped change community attitudes and made primary education virtually universal. Today, girls finish secondary school at higher rates than boys.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Egypt

Location(s)

Middle East & North Africa

Egypt

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2009 - 2021

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Government of Egypt, National Council for Women, Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health.

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

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

Other

  • Transition from school to work

Other skills

  • Financial literacy
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Vocational training

Skills

  • Literacy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • Digital literacy
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Female genital mutilation/cutting
  • Gender equality
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Other community members - female

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational

Other populations reached

  • Boys (both in school and out of school)

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Curriculum/learning

  • Remedial education/skills

Educational Technology

  • Digital skills/literacy (including coding)

Health and childcare services

  • Referrals to health services
  • Sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning)

Reducing economic barriers

  • Financial literacy training
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees

School-related gender-based violence

  • Safe channels/mechanisms for reporting violence

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - outside the classroom

Women's empowerment programs

  • Leadership training
  • Self-help groups (financial, including savings and credit groups)

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced child marriage