Girls Education Project (GEP) Phase 3

  • P Project/Program

I Inactive

Key Information

Through its interventions, GEP3 aims to improve access, retention and quality, ensuring learning outcomes for girls. GEP3 headline target is to enable 1 million additional girls to gain access to better education by 2020, working in public primary schools and Integrated Quranic schools, including a Hausa early learning initiative, RANA. GEP3 will continue more conventional interventions shown to have an impact, including work with state authorities to develop new integrated education plans, support to school development plans, head teacher and teacher training. GEP 3 will therefore promote catalytic interventions to help break the persisting barriers to girls’ education via advocacy work with traditional leaders, parents and Islamic teachers and other key players. Support will also be provided to School Based Management Committees, particularly to increase female representation, to improve community ability to hold teachers to account, to ensure issues specific to girls’ attendance are raised and tackled, and to improve social and economic opportunity for girls.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Nigeria

Activity URL

https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/projects/GB-1-202643/summary

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2012 - 2022

Partner(s)

  • Oxford Policy Management

River Path Associates, DAI Europe, Baker Tilly Nigeria

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment

Other skills

  • Rights/empowerment education

Quality

  • School quality
  • School-related gender-based violence

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Early/child marriage
  • Masculinities/boys
  • Mentorship
  • Other cultural practices
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

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

Age

6 - 14

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary

Other populations reached

  • Boys in school
  • Brothers
  • Fathers
  • Mothers
  • Other caregivers
  • Other community members - female
  • Other community members - male
  • Parent-teacher associations/school management committees
  • Religious leaders
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization
  • Mothers' clubs
  • School management committees
  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments

Curriculum/learning

  • Increased availability of learning materials

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of classrooms
  • Construction/improvement of schools

Life skills education

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

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Educating girls about menstruation

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Adult (non-teacher) mentors
  • Peer mentors

Other

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

Policy/legal environment

  • Developing/promoting new laws/policies

Reducing economic barriers

  • Unconditional cash transfers (including non-cash goods) to individuals/households

School-related gender-based violence

  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct

Social/gender norms change

  • Media campaigns
  • Work with religious leaders

Teaching

  • Hiring more female teachers
  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general
  • Teacher incentives
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Literacy - outside the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - outside the classroom

Water and sanitation

  • Construction/improvement of sex-specific toilets

Show More

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Fatima Sada
U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
fatima-sada@dfid.gov.uk