Girls' Education Challenge - Fund Manager PwC

This Girls' Education Challenge Phase 2 will enable up to 1 million marginalised girls (currently supported through Phase 1) to continue to learn, complete primary school and transition on to secondary education. A further 500,000 highly marginalised adolescent girls, who are out of school, will also be targeted to gain literacy, numeracy and other skills relevant for life and work. It is estimated that at least 400,000 girls will complete junior secondary school in the first four years of the extension. The extension will build on what we have learnt so far in Phase 1 and further deepen global understanding of what works for girls’ education, particularly during adolescence and in the transition from education to work.

Leave No Girl Behind is a new initiative announced in July 2016 as part of the Girls Education Challenge. This initiative will support interventions providing literacy, numeracy and skills relevant for life and work to highly marginalised, adolescent girls who have never attended or have already dropped out of school. So far, the Girls Education Challenge has reached over one million disadvantaged girls. We want to reach more girls, especially those most marginalised girls with new and innovative solutions and scale up and adopt successful existing interventions to deliver quality education and skills to the hardest to reach girls.

Supporting the Education of Marginalised Girls in Kailali (STEM) 1) Training marginalised girls to complete a full cycle of education. These girls provide academic and emotional support to some of the most marginalised girls, or ‘Little Sisters’, by ‘Big Sisters’, who mentor the girls through their schooling and act as positive role models. International volunteers train and support the Big Sisters, and work with them to mobilise commitment in communities and resources for the continuation of the scheme. 2) Providing nine-month "Bridge Courses" (preparatory classes and school enrolment support) to girls who have never been to school or who dropped out in Grades 1 to 3 and learning support classes to low performing girls to help keep them in school 3) Mentoring the Big Sisters through male and female ‘adult champions’ from the local community facilitates negotiations with parents, adding credibility to the scheme. 4) Establishing gender-friendly school environments in schools that the projects’ marginalised girls attend.

Sisters for Sisters Education in Nepal 1. Training marginalised girls to complete a full cycle of education. These girls provide academic and emotional support to some of the most marginalised girls, or ‘Little Sisters’, by ‘Big Sisters’, who mentor the girls through their schooling and act as positive role models. International volunteers train and support the Big Sisters, and work with them to mobilise commitment in communities and resources for the continuation of the scheme. 2. Providing nine-month "Bridge Courses" (preparatory classes and school enrolment support) to girls who have never been to school or who dropped out in Grades 1 to 3 and learning support classes to low performing girls to help keep them in school 3. Mentoring the Big Sisters through male and female ‘adult champions’ from the local community facilitates negotiations with parents, adding credibility to the scheme. 4. Establishing gender-friendly school environments in schools that the projects’ marginalised girls attend.