Impact on Girls
Advancing gender equity, building agency, and empowering girls and young women are core to Educate!’s strategy.
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 closes economic gaps, advances equity, and improves girls’ wellbeing.
Our Impact on Girls
Two rigorous external evaluations on Educate!’s work integrating employment-focused learning 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 Equity Strategy
1. Ensuring Inclusion and Equitable Access: We address barriers to participation and learning – from model design to implementation – ensuring delivery of an inclusive approach that meets the needs of young women and girls.
2. Facilitating Gender-Sensitive Environments: We deliver a gender-sensitive curriculum and barrier-breaking pedagogy, with the goal to facilitate gender-responsive learning environments that support girls. We also facilitate mixed-gender learning spaces, where girls and boys explore and challenge gender stereotypes together, while boys become advocates for greater gender equity and allies in dismantling the gendered barriers that hold girls back.
3. Building Supportive Ecosystems: We recognize that to empower young women and create enabling environments that help them succeed, we must move beyond improving access and curriculum to engage the wider ecosystem that surround young people. We engage teachers, caregivers, spouses, and community members in conversations around gender equity and supporting girls, with the goal to create a supportive ecosystems that uplifts girls.
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