Education Empowerment
Providing girls and boys with quality education is one of our most urgent priorities .
Quality Education
We aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
Safe Learning Environment
where students can feel psychologically and physically safe, interact freely without intimidation and abuse, and develop academically
Equal Opportunitity
We ensure equal rights and opportunities for girls and boys, and help all children fulfil their potential in their homes and communities.
Access to Quality Education
Giving children a chance to learn is one of the most urgent priorities in Liberia. Liberia has one of the world’s highest levels of out-school children, with an estimated 15 to 20 percent of 6-14year-olds who are not in class. Just over a third of preschoolers have access to early childhood learning programs and only 54 percent of children complete primary education. Moreover, there are substantial educational disparities due to gender, rural-urban locality, and income inequality in in Liberia, with poor rural girls and women being at the greatest disadvantage.
Among Liberians 15 years and older, the literacy rate is 62.7% for males and 34.1% for females. 30% of women have no education at all, compared to 13% of men. The main barriers to girls’ attendance, retention and completion (GARC) in secondary schools are related to the practical gender needs of girls, gender norms that give preference to boys’ education (particularly in impoverished and rural households) and require girls to take on domestic labor, as well as discriminatory practices.
The goal is to ensure that all children have access to quality education, regardless of gender, socio-economic status, ethnicity, religion, and disability status.
Policies Tools & Action on Girls’ Education
Prioritizing girls’ education is one of the most effective ways for ending poverty in developing nations.
The goal is to contribute to the effective implementation the National Policy on Girls Education (NPGE), with a specific focus on the areas that address the key barriers to girls’ attendance, retention and completion (GARC) in secondary schools.
To provide all Liberians with the opportunity to access and complete affordable education of quality and relevance that meets their needs and those of the nation.
The Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Education has over the years taken major actions to improve Liberia’s education system.
Partners
Th educate Her project aims to promote gender equality and equity in education.
The Educate HER Consortium features by GPE Secretariat as a great example of how engaged CSOs can drive positive transformations of the education sector.
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