Center for Global Development (CGD)

  • R Researcher

Description

CGD’s education program focuses on broad welfare goals and seeks to understand the role education can play in addressing inequity. Despite the tremendous progress that has been made in getting girls and boys into school, education has not yet fulfilled its promise of being the great societal equalizer. Gender inequality remains acute and deeply rooted in the economic, political and social spheres in developing countries. Intergenerational mobility is declining, not increasing. Poor children get educated in bad schools where they do not acquire basic numeracy and literacy skills while rich children attend good schools. Our research examines the mechanisms through which education can give children equal life opportunities and build the human capital that nations need to prosper.

Primary Functions

  • Networking/Convening
  • Research - policy analysis
  • Research - project evaluation

Secondary Functions

  • Awareness Raising/Advocacy
  • Research - other

Geographic Scope

  • Global / regional

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Education topics addressed

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion

Other

  • Remote Learning

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • School quality
  • School-related gender-based violence
  • School violence

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting topics addressed

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Early/child marriage
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Sexual harassment & coercion
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

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Current girls’ education funders

Current girls' education partners

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Website

Center for Global Development (CGD)

Headquarters location(s)

  • London, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Washington, D.C., , United States of America

Office location(s)

  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • United States of America

Contacts

Rita Perakis
Assistant Director and Senior Policy Analyst, Global Education
rperakis@cgdev.org
Center for Global Development (CGD)

Locations of current girls’ education work

Map showing countries (listed below) where the organization is involved with girls' education programs

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