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Educate Girls
from MHRD Compendium
by renure
Established in 2007, Educate Girls is holistically tackling issues at the cause of gender inequality in India’s education system. Area of Intervention Educate Girls’ programs focus on enrolment, retention, and learning of marginalized girls (6 to 14 years) by leveraging existing government and community infrastructure. Key Geography Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh Need for the initiative Problem Rajasthan demonstrates the largest gender gap in education largely because of gender discrimination, social stigmas and castebased issues
Situation Before Rajasthan featured as the State with 2nd highest percentage of ‘out of school’ children at 8.26% as well as highest percentage of ‘out of school girls’ at 12.55% across the country Intervention
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Overview
The interventions across all the Educate Girls’ programs include community-based activities and mobilization
Steps • Recruitment of Team Balika (community volunteers) followed by orientation and enrolment training
Baseline assessment, including Door to Door Surveys (including profiles of villages, households and schools) Enrolment activities, with focus on girls, in school Life Skills for adolescent girls
Learning baseline assessment conducted Focus on learning outcomes through interventions using creative learning techniques (Gyan ka Pitara) Learning endline assessment and report submitted of impact
Resources
Team Balika volunteer network, community, school administration and beneficiaries engaged
Impact and Key Learning Achieved so far
Over 2,00,000 out-of-school girls enrolled in schools – more than 90% girls’ enrolment and 93% retention of girls enrolled Average increase of 25% - 40% in learning outcomes across Hindi, English, and Math Over 6,50,000 students with improved learning outcomes
More than 4.9 million beneficiaries of the programs Over 11,000 Team Balika members trained and worked in their communities
Key Learning The common thread in all the successful schools has been the emergence of a natural leader through the process of community motivation and involvement
