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Women in Development
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941-002CENTRAL OPERATING UNIT: Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade: Office of Women in Development (EGAT/WID)
PROGRAM TITLE: Girls' Education
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE: Broad-Based, Informed Constituencies Mobilized to Improve Girls' Education in Emphasis Countries, 941-002
STATUS: Continuing
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $2,340,000 DA
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $2,340,000 DA
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 1995 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2003Summary: USAID's girls' and women's education program works to:
- mobilize host-country commitment and resources for girls' education in eight countries: Mali, Morocco, Guatemala, Guinea, Peru, El Salvador, Ghana and the Congo DRC;
- form partnerships with communities to support girls' enrollment and retention in primary school;
- increase the rate of learning for girls in primary school;
- document, measure and monitor progress and achievements in and sustainability of girls' education; and
- raise the awareness of leaders and the general public about the benefits of educating girls.
Inputs, Outputs and Activities: FY 2002 Program: USAID will work with local business communities to create scholarships to keep girls in school and to increase the number of women finishing teacher training colleges; to provide technical assistance to teachers so that they improve teaching methods that increase the rate of learning for girls (and also benefit boys); to plan with community members and local businesses interventions that increase enrollment and retention of
girls in primary school; and to sponsor conferences, networks, publications, and studies that show the achievement and sustainability of girls' education. The capacity of policy makers in education to understand the constraints to girls' full participation in education will result in policies and programs that are more effective in enrolling and keeping girls in school. The program strengthens the capacity of government officials and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other partners to improve girls' education.
Of the 625 million school-aged children in the developing world, 130 million are growing up without access to basic education, of which girls account for 73 million or 56 percent. [UNICEF, "State of the World's Children, 1999]
Planned FY 2003 Program: USAID plans to use FY 2003 resources requested in this Budget Justification to launch new programs for girls' and women's education building upon the success of the last five-years. The new program will expand efforts with businesses and civil society organizations to promote girls' participation in primary school. Activities will mobilize individuals and organizations with which donors have not traditionally established partnerships--such as religious, business, media and community leaders--to enter into policy dialogue with local governments in support of girls' education. Studies will identify the barriers to girls' education and the host-country financial and human resources needed to implement low-cost, locally owned actions to overcome those barriers. The program will also provide technical leadership by initiating international dialogue and launching demonstration programs on critical issues for girls' education such as during and after conflict, and for disenfranchised youth and girls affected by trafficking and HIV/AIDS.
Performance and Results: In November 2001, with leadership and support from this program, the Peruvian legislature passed a law that assures universal enrollment for girls under eighteen. In Guatemala, private sector support was obtained for approximately 47,500 scholarships for girls from the areas with the highest dropout rates. Scholarship support will continue in 2003 in Guatemala as well as in Guinea. Based on the success of past efforts, broadcast and print media will provide information about the benefits and reasons for educating girls to the local population and to political leaders. Among religious leaders from Catholic and Islamic faiths, community actions were planned to lessen unwanted pregnancies, early marriage and domestic work among girls by encouraging them to attend and stay in school. Data gathering for the study of achievements in girls' education in the five emphasis countries supported by USAID was finished, and the final analysis and report will be completed during the first quarter of FY 2002. A lessons learned conference was held in August 2001 and the proceedings were published for girls' education activities in Guatemala, Morocco and Peru. The information produced will be incorporated into ongoing activities through FY 2003 as well as in the design of new girls' education programs.
Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: Key partners are World Education, Inc.; Creative Associates International Inc.; Development Associates Inc.; DevTech Systems, Inc.; and Juárez and Associates; as well as new partners to be determined.
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
941-002 Broad-based, informed constituencies mobilized to improve girls' education in emphasis countries CSD CSH DA Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 10,020 0 6,164 Expenditures 4,763 0 5,861 Unliquidated 5,257 0 303 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 0 2,340 0 Expenditures 5,257 0 303 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 10,020 2,340 6,164 Expenditures 10,020 0 6,164 Unliquidated 0 2,340 0 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 0 0 0 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 0 0 2,340 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 0 0 2,340 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 0 0 2,340 Future Obligations 0 0 2,340 Est. Total Cost 10,020 2,340 13,184
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