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Girls Education Initiative

The General Goals of the Initiative:

Decreasing the gender gap in primary education by 2007 in the villages targeted by the Initiative in seven governorates at the rate of 60% of its value in 2002.
Realizing enrollment for all, improving the quality of education and realizing equality of treatment between the two sexes in basic primary education by 2015.

Procedural Objective:

Building 1047 girl-friendly schools by the end of 2007 to enroll 31410 girls in the age group of 6 to 13.

Time Span:

Planning Stage 2000 – 2002
Implementation stage 2002 – 2007
Generalization Stage 2008 – 2012

Geographical Scope:

The villages and hamlets of the governorates of Sohag, Assuit, Menia, Bani Sueif, Fayoum, Giza and Beheira.

Targeted Segments:

Girls not enrolled in education in the age group 6 to 13 years.
The rate of children whose needs indicate their needs prove that they should join this kind of schools.
Youth who are graduates of higher and intermediate education in the villages and hamlets of the targeted governorates to work as facilitators.
The poor families of the girls will join the schools.
Those working in information centers at the level of markazs and villages

Achievements:

Update databases.
Determine the gender gap and the number of girls out of education in the targeted sites.
Creating a new cadre of trainers (48 trainer).
Training of 140 volunteer members of volunteering local teams in addition to 1260 members of the committees of education.
Opening of 1076 girl-friendly schools.
Enrolling some 24,413 girl students, or 89% of the total and 3023 boy students i.e. about 11% of the total number of male students.
Training of 2052 facilitators and 71 supervisors.
Provision of school feeding.
Free girl-friendly schools.
Develop a complete system of monitoring and evaluation, including the manual, tools and database.
To create 2183 job opportunities.
Documentation.
Production of 6 teaching guides to teach the Arabic language, mathematics and activities and the manner of calculation and active learning activities through the active learning process and a guide to evaluate the students fourth and two guides for awareness-raising and community mobilization.

Partners:

National Council for Childhood and Motherhood: the main coordinator.
A group of United Nations organizations: the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - UNDP - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - United Nations Development Fund for Women - International Labor Organization - United Nations Population Fund - World Bank - World Food Program.
European Union / European Commission
Governmental institutions: 18 Ministries and other governmental entities, with the Ministry of Education as a key partner.
Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics.
Center for Information and Decision Support.
A number of national and local NGOs.
General diwans of governorates and the executive bodies at the local level.
Local volunteer teams at the governorates level, contribute to the planning, coordination and policy development processes.
NGOs: seven local non-governmental organizations at governorate level to guide and monitor the work of the Initiative at the local level.
Private sector: Some of its institutions contribute to building schools and providing support in kind to the beneficiaries of the Initiative.

Role of the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood:

Coordination and implementation in experimentation in the expansion phase and will be responsible for monitoring, evaluation, awareness-raising, community mobilization, coordination and capacity-building of all partners and ensure high quality performance.