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
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2012 - 2022
Partner(s)
- Oxford Policy Management
River Path Associates, DAI Europe, Baker Tilly Nigeria
Ministry Affiliation
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UnknownGeographic Scope
NationalAreas 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
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
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)