Safe Schools for Girls

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

The Hunger Project-Bangladesh has been implementing the Safe Schools for Girls campaign in partnership with Independent Television Service, a United States Agency for International Development-funded organization. The campaign’s objectives are to increase girls’ attendance in school, reduce dropouts, improve the quality of education available to girls and promote additional opportunities for girls in and out of school.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

South Asia

Bangladesh

Activity URL

https://www.thp.org/news/best-schools-for-girls-a-way-to-ensure-girls-feel-safe-in-school/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2015 -

Partner(s)

Independent Television Service

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

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

  • Secondary completion

Other skills

  • Rights/empowerment education

Quality

  • School quality
  • School-related gender-based violence

Cross-cutting areas

  • Early/child marriage
  • Gender equality
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Youth

Age

12 - 18

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
  • School management committees

Life skills education

  • Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)
  • Gender, rights and power
  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)

School-related gender-based violence

  • Safe and welcoming schools

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents

Women's empowerment programs

  • Leadership training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS