Advancing Girls' Education

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Key Information

AGE Africa’s scholarship fund was launched in 2005 in response to the overwhelming need for financial support for girls’ education. Over the past 18 years, the fund has steadily grown from just 6 scholarships to over 500 scholarships in 2023. In Malawi, the indirect cost of education can often be more than twice the cost of tuition at secondary schools. AGE Africa’s scholarships not only assist girls with paying school fees but also with: the cost of uniforms, school supplies, transportation, and personal hygiene materials such as sanitary pads. Our scholarships aim to ensure that the most vulnerable girls stay in school and succeed.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Malawi

Activity URL

https://ageafrica.org/education-access/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2005 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

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
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Climate change
  • Early/child marriage
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

13 - 25

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational
  • Tertiary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Improving transportation

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Mothers' clubs

Health and childcare services

  • HIV prevention

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Educational Radio or Television Programs
  • Textbooks (paper)
  • Textbooks (unspecified)

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power
  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Educating girls about menstruation
  • Raising awareness about menstruation (beyond just girls)
  • Sanitary product distribution

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Peer mentors
  • Teachers as mentors

Other

  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)
  • Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)

Policy/legal environment

  • Raising awareness about existing laws/policies

Reducing economic barriers

  • Addressing cost of school supplies
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees
  • Unconditional cash transfers (including non-cash goods) to individuals/households
  • Uniforms

School-related gender-based violence

  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
  • Violence prevention curriculum/activities for students

Social/gender norms change

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

Women's empowerment programs

  • Leadership training

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased secondary school enrolment

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced intimate partner violence
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Advancing Girls' Education in Africa
info@ageafrica.org