Girls' Education & Empowerment

Empowering girls with life skills, education, and sisterhood is vital for them to become thriving women. Every year a girl goes to school can increase her future income by 10 percent, according to UNICEF. Girls’ education is also associated with improved health outcomes, such as accessing pre- and postnatal care, and with increased levels of freedom and mobility. Yet an estimated 130 million adolescent girls are out of school worldwide. Ensuring that girls become educated is a multifaceted undertaking, requiring community, school, and parental engagement and empowering girls with the knowledge they need to keep themselves healthy and safe.
Our Girls’ Education and Empowerment Lab area explores how best to empower girls to grow into strong women. Our GEE Lab focuses on how to keep girls in school, arm them with the knowledge and resources they need, engage boys and men as partners in girls’ empowerment, and encourage leadership among girls.
To learn more about our Girls’ Education and Empowerment Lab, contact us at [email protected]
Strong Girls Make Strong Women Handbook
WomenStrong International has seen the power of groups and the importance of life skills education in empowering girls and young women to thrive socially, physically, and financially. Strong Girls Make Strong Women: A Practical Handbook to Creating and Leading a Girls’ Club was developed in partnership with WomenStrong founding members in Ghana, Kenya, India, and Haiti, based on their experiences running Girls’ Clubs for over 10,000 girls and boys. Our Handbook incorporates best practices promoted by renowned youth development and life skills education specialists worldwide. Download our Strong Girls Make Strong Women Handbook here, and learn more about the difference it can make in your community.
Field Resources for Girls' Education & Empowerment
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Source: WomenStrong International
This fact sheet describes WomenStrong International’s approach to knowledge and learning, both as it…
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Source: Sahar
In this powerful podcast series, Sahar Education explores how boys and men can be critical allies in…
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Source: Women's Justice Initiative
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced shutdowns across the globe, Women’s Justice Initiative of Gu…
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Source: WomenStrong International
COVID-19 threatens to upend decades of progress toward gender equality. The pandemic undeniably harm…
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Source: USAID
This toolkit from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) includes a growing…
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Source: ExpandNet
ExpandNet is an informal global network of individuals from international organizations, non-governm…
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Toolkit
Source: Pathfinder International (2017)
The Health of People and the Environment in the Lake Victoria Basin (HoPE-LVB) project is one of the…
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Systematic Review
Source: YouthPower
Soft skills, also referred to as life skills, socio-emotional skills, etc., are a broad set of skill…
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Source: YouthPower (2016)
The Positive Youth Development Measurement Toolkit, developed by YouthPower Learning, provides guida…