Educating girls, for Better Future

There are various factors affecting educational opportunities for girls. Deeply rooted customs, belief systems and attitudes practiced in families and communities, coupled with poverty and lack of awareness are seen as the main barriers for girls to complete their secondary education. Moreover, socio-cultural factors such as social norms and traditional practices about the role and position of girls and women in Ethiopian society, gender-based violence, early marriage and teenage pregnancy, are affecting girls’ access and completion of their secondary school.

The educating girls, for Better Future project is designed to bring safe school environment for girls at secondary school and quality education by mitigating barriers of girls’ education. It also aims to bring policy and social norm changes through advocacy, raising public awareness and strengthening the capacity of local communities, and by engaging Zonal, regional and national level duty bearers to ensure quality education. Overall, the project anticipates an impact that helps girls to get quality education and to create girls’ friendly school environment and to have strong accountable systems that will enable all vulnerable girls to access schools and quality learning opportunities.

Particularly, the project also aspires and asks to bring the development and implementation of Girls friendly Safe School Environment Act and the existing education quality standards will be revised for gender responsiveness and inclusiveness of girls’ needs and interest
The Overall Objective: the overall objective of this project is to contribute for quality education and supportive social and culture norm for girls to complete secondary school successfully.

The project is financed by Malala fund, for three years (April 2020- 31 March 2023) to be implemented at six secondary schools found in North Shewa Zone of Amhara region.

This project is designed to bring safe school environment for girls at secondary school and quality education by mitigating barriers of girls’ education. It also aims to bring policy and social norm changes through advocacy, raising public awareness and strengthening the capacity of local communities, and by engaging Zonal, regional and national level duty bearers to ensure quality education.