Data-Driven Advocacy for Girls' Education in Emergencies in Africa

  • A Advocacy Campaign/Project

I Inactive

Key Information

Equal Measures 2030, and its partners IPBF and FAWE are collaborating in Burkina Faso and Kenya on the Global Affairs Canada funded project “Data-Driven Advocacy for Girls Education in Emergencies (EiE) in Africa.” The project aims to work with women’s rights organisations (WROs) and decision-makers to improve the collection and use of gender data to advance education for girls’ and women in fragile settings within Kenya and Burkina Faso.

The project is part of the Global Affairs Canada commitment to the Charlevoix declaration, which aims to improve education for girls and women affected by crises, as well as lead to the collection of better sex and age disaggregated data on education in emergencies.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Burkina Faso, Kenya

Activity URL

https://www.equalmeasures2030.org/girls-education/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2020 - 2021

Partner(s)

Initiative Pananetugri pour la Bien-être de la Femme (IPBF)

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

New for COVID-19

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Secondary completion

Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response
  • Emergencies and protracted crises

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Other community members - female, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Not applicable or unknown

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

  • Displaced/refugee - External (from other countries)
  • Other

Program Approaches Back to Top

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)

Cross-cutting goals

Not applicable or unknown

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Equal Measures 2030