Educate Girls : Improving the Quality and Outcomes of Girls’ Learning

In India, women and girls, especially in rural areas, are particularly affected by illiteracy. The social enterprise educate girls works to reform the existing school framework and create community ownership of government schools to improve Indian...

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Main Authors:	Agapitova, Natalia, Navarrete Moreno, Cristina
Format:	Case Study
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	GENDER EDUCATION POLICY GIRLS' LEARNING ILLITERACY INEQUALITY ENROLLMENT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/985741495100854485/Educate-girls-improving-the-quality-and-outcomes-of-girls-learning http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27662

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spelling	okr-10986-276622021-05-25T09:01:06Z Educate Girls : Improving the Quality and Outcomes of Girls’ Learning Agapitova, Natalia Navarrete Moreno, Cristina GENDER EDUCATION POLICY GIRLS' LEARNING ILLITERACY INEQUALITY ENROLLMENT In India, women and girls, especially in rural areas, are particularly affected by illiteracy. The social enterprise educate girls works to reform the existing school framework and create community ownership of government schools to improve Indian girls’ enrollment, retention, and academic performance. As of fiscal year 2017-18, educate girls operates in 10 districts in Rajasthan and 3 districts in Madhya Pradesh benefiting approximately 3.8 million beneficiaries. Educate girls creates community ownership of government schools by leveraging existing public, private, and community resources to empower the local communities. The educate girls model allows for sending one girl to school at United States dollar (USD) 5 per year. Its monitoring and evaluation system measures enrollment, attendance, and quality of learning for these girls, even at a large scale. The program’s impact is assessed through rigorous evaluation techniques, including quasi-experimental designs and randomized control trials. The educate girls model has the potential for far-reaching benefits - continuing to address gender inequality in education can bring about real transformation, such as improvements in health, income levels, and overall livelihoods in rural populations. 2017-07-31T22:11:57Z 2017-07-31T22:11:57Z 2017-04 Case Study http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/985741495100854485/Educate-girls-improving-the-quality-and-outcomes-of-girls-learning http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27662 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper South Asia India
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spellingShingle	GENDER EDUCATION POLICY GIRLS' LEARNING ILLITERACY INEQUALITY ENROLLMENT Agapitova, Natalia Navarrete Moreno, Cristina Educate Girls : Improving the Quality and Outcomes of Girls’ Learning
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description	In India, women and girls, especially in rural areas, are particularly affected by illiteracy. The social enterprise educate girls works to reform the existing school framework and create community ownership of government schools to improve Indian girls’ enrollment, retention, and academic performance. As of fiscal year 2017-18, educate girls operates in 10 districts in Rajasthan and 3 districts in Madhya Pradesh benefiting approximately 3.8 million beneficiaries. Educate girls creates community ownership of government schools by leveraging existing public, private, and community resources to empower the local communities. The educate girls model allows for sending one girl to school at United States dollar (USD) 5 per year. Its monitoring and evaluation system measures enrollment, attendance, and quality of learning for these girls, even at a large scale. The program’s impact is assessed through rigorous evaluation techniques, including quasi-experimental designs and randomized control trials. The educate girls model has the potential for far-reaching benefits - continuing to address gender inequality in education can bring about real transformation, such as improvements in health, income levels, and overall livelihoods in rural populations.
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author	Agapitova, Natalia Navarrete Moreno, Cristina
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title	Educate Girls : Improving the Quality and Outcomes of Girls’ Learning
title_short	Educate Girls : Improving the Quality and Outcomes of Girls’ Learning
title_full	Educate Girls : Improving the Quality and Outcomes of Girls’ Learning
title_fullStr	Educate Girls : Improving the Quality and Outcomes of Girls’ Learning
title_full_unstemmed	Educate Girls : Improving the Quality and Outcomes of Girls’ Learning
title_sort	educate girls : improving the quality and outcomes of girls’ learning
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/985741495100854485/Educate-girls-improving-the-quality-and-outcomes-of-girls-learning http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27662
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