Circles

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

Circles, in partnership with Lean-In, provides a supportive community for university students. Circles are self-driven initiatives by engineering students on campus who meet regularly to learn and grow together. WomEng provides discussion guidelines and educational resources to the circles. The result is confident engineering leaders who are better prepared for the workplace and are supporting each other to stem the drop-out rate for engineering.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

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

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

Lean-In

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

Skills

  • STEM

Cross-cutting areas

  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Youth

Age

18 - 25

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Tertiary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Adult (non-teacher) mentors
  • Peer mentors

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training
  • Self-help groups (non-financial)

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

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

Cross-cutting goals

  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms