Higher Education Readiness (HER)

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Key Information

The Institute of International Education’s Higher Education Readiness program (HER) provides young women in secondary school from underserved communities with a pathway to university. HER provides 100 girls entering the 11th grade with scholarship support to help them complete their secondary education and equip them with the tools needed to continue on to university.

Lead Implementing Government(s)

Ethiopia

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia

Activity URL

https://www.iie.org/programs/her/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2013 -

Partner(s)

Let Girls Lead

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Not changed

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Post-secondary
  • Secondary completion

Other skills

  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • HIV and STIs
  • Mentorship

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school

Age

15 - 24

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Upper secondary
  • Tertiary

Other populations reached

  • Fathers
  • Mothers
  • Other community members - female
  • Other community members - male

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Improving transportation

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization

Health and childcare services

  • HIV prevention
  • Sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning)

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Textbooks (unspecified)

Life skills education

  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

Policy/legal environment

  • Public-private partnerships

Reducing economic barriers

  • Addressing cost of school supplies
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees
  • Uniforms

School-related gender-based violence

  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)

Social/gender norms change

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

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Tutoring - general

Women's empowerment programs

  • Leadership training

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased literacy
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased test scores
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Teachers and learners have the knowledge and skills to promote gender equality

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS