Girls’ Education

An article that shares the stories of girls living in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya.

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.

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.

This paper provides a review of Evans and Yuan’s 2019 paper "What We Learn about Girls’ Education from Interventions that Do Not Focus on Girls." It disagrees with their conclusion and recommends combining girl-targeted and general interven...

A study on how India is playing a leading role in its use of innovative financing for development with impact bonds, an outcome-based financing structure. It outlines key lessons to be drawn for their application to education.

A deep dive into the Barro-Lee Educational Attainment Data to examine gender gaps in education and determine where more focus should be given in research, policy, and programmatic efforts to address gender inequality.