GirlEng

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

GirlEng increases awareness and makes STEM fun, engaging and relatable to secondary school girls. The GirlEng mission is to attract and mentor girls into STEM related fields with a focus on engineering & technology. This is done through gamification, coding and building projects translating maths and science into everyday challenges. At the end of 2017, WomEng will have worked with approximately 20,000 girls globally. Our first cohort of GirlEngers graduated as engineers in 2014 in South Africa.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://www.womeng.org/what-we-do

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2009 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

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

Other skills

  • Rights/empowerment education

Skills

  • STEM

Cross-cutting areas

  • Gender equality
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Youth

Age

13 - 19

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Adult (non-teacher) mentors

Social/gender norms change

  • Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Numeracy - outside the classroom

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms