Education Access and Equity

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

CRS focuses on education for the most vulnerable and marginalized children. We analyze and prioritize interventions that will have the strongest impact on reaching girls, child laborers, children with disabilities and others. CRS gets kids into school and helps them succeed by addressing their special needs and by creating a supportive learning environment.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

East Asia & Pacific, Latin America & Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa

Cambodia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kenya, Viet Nam

Activity URL

https://www.crs.org/our-work-overseas/program-areas/access-and-equity

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

Not applicable or unknown

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

  • Other

Quality

  • School facilities
  • School quality

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • Food/water security
  • Gender equality
  • Nutrition
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Pre-school
  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary

Other populations reached

  • Boys in school
  • Other community members - female
  • Other community members - male

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of schools

Food/nutrition

  • School feeding

School-related gender-based violence

  • Safe and welcoming schools

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved health - other
  • Improved nutrition
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms