Girls’ Education

A report by the Malala Fund that shares research on girls' education, presents new data on the transition from school to the workforce, and outlines recommendations for the G20 to ensure all girls have the skills they need for the future of work.

An article that highlights the Girl-talk-Girl program by the feminist organization Footage that engages young women worldwide in collaborative media arts activism against gender-based violence. Through storytelling, they examine GBV in their lives.

Research conducted in Northern Nigeria that found that acquiring vocational skills alone was not enough to empower girls or form the basis of an alternative to early marriage. It recommends a holistic program incorporating life skills and counseling.

A guide for monitoring and evaluation practitioners, researchers, and students who are interested in learning how to measure women’s and girls’ empowerment in an impact evaluation. It has examples of survey questions and non-survey instruments.

This recording is from the 2019 Teach For All Global Conference in Yerevan, Armenia. It features Arman Rahmatullah, CEO of Teach For Afghanistan, and Sunita Waiba, a Teach For Nepal student, speaking on the empowerment of girls through education.

This review brings together evidence from 270 educational interventions from 177 studies in 54 low- and middle-income countries and identifies their impacts on girls, regardless of whether the interventions specifically target girls.

This article highlights recent data showing that while gains have been made in girls' school enrollment in India since a 2009 law, girls are still not attending as they should due to highly unequal expectations around household and agricultural work.