GIRL'S EDUCATION IS IMPORTANT

 Girl’s education a thread on report by world bank - III

The last part of the world bank report is what is the result that they achieve from this report.

The WBG promotes girls' education through a number of initiatives. Scholarships to improve girls' school enrollment and completion, skill development programmes, gender-inclusive and responsive teaching and learning, recruitment and training of female teachers, and the construction of safe and inclusive schools for girls and young women are just a few examples.

Here are a few key intervention examples:

1. Stipends to help girls and young women finish primary and secondary school. Stipends are being implemented in Punjab (Pakistan), Bangladesh, and the Sahel, benefiting nearly half a million girls. In all of our projects, we strive to change social norms surrounding girls' education.

2. Increase girls' participation in skill-development programmes, with a focus on non-traditional careers. In Nepal, the Bank supports monetary incentives to encourage female participation in short-term vocational training. In Nigeria, the Bank will fund the training of 300,000 girls in digital literacy so that they can thrive in the digital economy.

3. Schemes aimed at increasing female participation in higher education. The Bank has supported increased female enrollment in master's and PhD programmes through the Africa Higher Education Centers of Excellence (ACE) project. Female students in ACE centres increased from 343 in 2014 to 3,400 in 2020, an increase of nearly tenfold. The Bank is also helping to strengthen and retain the pipeline of female students interested in computer science and engineering programmes.

4. Getting religious and community leaders on board is crucial to ending discrimination, violence against women, and the high rate of early marriages. For example, the SWEDD project (Sahel Women's Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Project for Africa) has brought together over 2,000 religious leaders in rural communities to hold community dialogues in support of girls' secondary education, delayed childbearing, birth spacing, family planning, and the prevention of GBV.

5. Gender and social norms are being addressed through communication and awareness campaigns. In Nigeria, we're collaborating with the government to raise awareness about issues like early marriage and pregnancy, high dropout rates, and gender-based violence, as well as develop prevention mechanisms. Over 24,000 husbands and future husbands are enrolled in 1,719 "husband schools" as part of the SWEDD project, where the curriculum has been shown to increase male participation in household task-sharing, healthy sexual and reproductive health behaviours, and violence against women and children.

With all these the world bank aims to achieve increase in women’s literacy rate and a better society. But besides there are some specific goals that will follow these actions taken in pursuance of achieving greater girl’s education ratio. It helps to achieve the following specific goals:

( I) improving human endowments (including education); 

(ii) removing barriers to more and better jobs; 

(iii) removing barriers to women's asset ownership and control; and

 (iv) enhancing women's voice and agency, as well as engaging men and boys.

 Most education projects aim to help with at least one of these goals, with the overall goal of closing gender gaps.

                                               -KUSHAL YADAV