Girls’ Education for All Jeopardy! Social-Cultural Barriers to Education Education Facts and...

Girls’ Education for All Jeopardy!Girls’ Education for All Jeopardy!Social-Cultural Social-Cultural

Barriers to Barriers to EducationEducation

EducationEducation

Facts and Facts and FiguresFigures

Good Good Practices in Practices in getting girls to getting girls to schoolschool

Organizations Organizations that promote that promote

Girls Girls EducationEducation

Benefits of Benefits of Educating Educating

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One of the primary responsibilities One of the primary responsibilities which cause girls from which cause girls from

impoverished households to drop impoverished households to drop out of schoolout of school

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What are domestic chores?What are domestic chores?

Financial barriers that still keep Financial barriers that still keep millions of girls, poor children, and millions of girls, poor children, and

AIDS orphans AIDS orphans

out of schoolout of school

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What are What are

user fees/school fees user fees/school fees

(and other out-of-pocket expenses (and other out-of-pocket expenses like uniforms, books, and like uniforms, books, and

materials)?materials)?

The epidemic that leaves millions of The epidemic that leaves millions of children orphaned and contributes children orphaned and contributes to girls having to carry the burden to girls having to carry the burden

of family workof family work

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What is HIV/AIDS?What is HIV/AIDS?

A common ritual/practice in A common ritual/practice in numerous developing countries numerous developing countries that contributes to girls dropping that contributes to girls dropping out or being excluded from the out or being excluded from the

education sectoreducation sector


What is child marriage?What is child marriage?

A reason adolescent girls are often A reason adolescent girls are often expelled from schoolexpelled from school


What is pregnancy?What is pregnancy?

The percentage of out of school The percentage of out of school children that are girlschildren that are girls


What is 53%?What is 53%?

The average school life expectancy The average school life expectancy for poor, rural girls in Sub-for poor, rural girls in Sub-

Saharan AfricaSaharan Africa


What is 1.9 years?What is 1.9 years?

The proportion of adult women who The proportion of adult women who cannot read worldwide (out of 796 cannot read worldwide (out of 796

illiterate adults)illiterate adults)


What is 2/3?What is 2/3?

Chance (in percentage) of girls Chance (in percentage) of girls going to secondary school in 47 going to secondary school in 47

out of 54 African countriesout of 54 African countries


What is 50%? What is 50%?

Estimated amount of annual Estimated amount of annual earnings forfeited by 65 low earnings forfeited by 65 low income, middle income, and income, middle income, and

transitional countries that fail to transitional countries that fail to educate girls to the same level as educate girls to the same level as

boysboys


What is $92 billion? What is $92 billion?

Professionals that can serve as Professionals that can serve as effective role models for girls and effective role models for girls and their families as a way to promote their families as a way to promote

sustained school participationsustained school participation


Who are female teachers?Who are female teachers?

(Well trained, motivated female (Well trained, motivated female teachers)teachers)

Regarded as an effective on-site Regarded as an effective on-site school method to reduce sexual-school method to reduce sexual-based violence and increase the based violence and increase the

likelihood of girls attending schoollikelihood of girls attending school


What is Effective Sanitation?What is Effective Sanitation?

Separate Latrines for girls and boysSeparate Latrines for girls and boys

Economic incentives that can Economic incentives that can increase girls enrollment and increase girls enrollment and attendance, and delay child attendance, and delay child

marriagemarriage


What are Conditional Cash What are Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT), girls scholarships Transfer (CCT), girls scholarships and/or stipend-scheme programsand/or stipend-scheme programs

An effective method of abating An effective method of abating parents’ fears of sending their parents’ fears of sending their

children (primarily girls) to schoolchildren (primarily girls) to school


What is safe transport to and from What is safe transport to and from school?school?

Method to remove gender bias Method to remove gender bias within the classroom and within the classroom and

curriculumcurriculum


What is ensuring that textbooks What is ensuring that textbooks portray women and men in equal portray women and men in equal

roles?roles?

Organization that supports the Organization that supports the Education for All campaign, and Education for All campaign, and believes that education is critical believes that education is critical

to eliminating poverty, to eliminating poverty, empowering active and healthy empowering active and healthy

citizens, and building sustainable citizens, and building sustainable solutions to the greatest solutions to the greatest development challengesdevelopment challenges


What is RESULTS?What is RESULTS?

The umbrella organization for thousands of citizens

promoting universal quality primary education around

the world


What is the Global Campaign for What is the Global Campaign for Education?Education?

The UN campaign that gives The UN campaign that gives American girls the opportunity to American girls the opportunity to

raise awareness and funds for UN raise awareness and funds for UN programs to help the world’s hardest programs to help the world’s hardest

to reach adolescentsto reach adolescents


What is Girl Up?What is Girl Up?

The global partnership between The global partnership between donor and developing countries to donor and developing countries to

ensure accelerated progress ensure accelerated progress towards the Millennium towards the Millennium

Development Goal of universal Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015primary education by 2015


What is the What is the

Education for All-Fast Track Education for All-Fast Track Initiative?Initiative?

The organization, which is part of The organization, which is part of the US government, most the US government, most

responsible for implementing US responsible for implementing US foreign assistance programs for foreign assistance programs for

educationeducation


What is USAID or the What is USAID or the

United States Agency for United States Agency for International Development?International Development?

A girl who completes basic A girl who completes basic education is how many times less education is how many times less

likely to contract HIV?likely to contract HIV?


What is 3 times less likely?What is 3 times less likely?

The increased likelihood of children The increased likelihood of children born to educated mothers born to educated mothers surviving past the age of 5surviving past the age of 5


What is twice as likely?What is twice as likely?

The percentage of wage The percentage of wage

increases from each additional year increases from each additional year of of

schooling for womenschooling for women


What is 10-20%What is 10-20%

The percent increase in likelihood The percent increase in likelihood of an educated mother of an educated mother immunizing her childimmunizing her child


What is 50% What is 50%

(more likely)?(more likely)?

The increase, in millions, in primary The increase, in millions, in primary school school

enrollment between1999 and 2007enrollment between1999 and 2007


What is 33 million?What is 33 million?

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