Impact on Girls

Across Africa, girls face greater barriers to accessing the learning experiences and tools that prepare them for today’s labor market.

Expanding economic opportunity, advancing agency and equity, and empowering girls are core to Educate!’s approach.

We implement an evidence-based, gender-transformative approach that has proven to lead to improved economic and life outcomes for girls. We continually collect and disaggregate data by gender, leveraging learnings to deliver a model that aims to close economic gaps, advance equity, and improve girls’ wellbeing.

Educate!’s Impact on Girls

Two rigorous external evaluations on Educate!’s work integrating an employment-focused subject into secondary schools demonstrated significant impact for girls:

  • 244% increase in annual income

  • 91% increase in business ownership

  • 113% increase in employment

It also found significant and persistent impacts on important gender equity outcomes — for both young men and women — four years later.

Young women report fewer incidences of domestic violence and are more likely to claim a role in household decision-making.

Young men are more likely to recognize women’s value, roles in society, and right to safe and consensual sex.

Educate!’s Gender-Transformative Approach

1. Inclusion and Equitable Access: We address barriers to participation and learning, from model design to implementation, ensuring an inclusive approach that meets the needs of young women and girls.

2. Facilitating Gender-Sensitive Environments: We deliver a gender-sensitive curriculum and learning environment to help both men and women challenge gender stereotypes around skills, careers, and leadership.

3. Building Supportive Ecosystems: We create enabling environments for young women and girls, engaging teachers, caregivers, spouses, and community members in conversations around shared goals.

Gender-Transformative = Action which increases gender equity at the individual, community, and institutional levels

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See our impact on young women and girls in action

Young men and women delay family formation, have fewer children, and express more egalitarian views after participating.

When girls are empowered, educated, and economically active, economies grow, communities and families are healthier, and cycles of poverty are broken.

“Educate!’s livelihood bootcamp changed my perception of women. I have no husband, but I can earn money and pay my son’s school fees.”

Oliver,

Livelihood Bootcamp Graduate, Uganda