Modalities
- Provide free or subsidised tuition, school supplies and transportation to reduce financial barriers for all students, especially girls.
- Ensure appropriate geographic distribution of schools to cover remote and hard to reach areas, consider community–based or flexible schedule schooling for the hardest to reach areas.
- Examine and resolve other barriers to schooling by identifying and addressing factors such as poverty, gender discrimination, child labour, geographic isolation, disability and cultural norms that prevent children from accessing and completing their education.
Conditions and considerations
- Screen for and treat anaemia that can be life–threatening in girls and causes extreme fatigue and poor concentration hindering educational attainment and productivity.
- Develop or revise education, employment and social protection policies with a gender–transformative approach to uphold women's rights.
- Conduct a gender analysis of policies and laws pertaining to education to identify where they directly or indirectly discriminate against women and prevent the realisation of their right to food, education and employment.
- Protect girls’ and women’s rights to education, promote adult education with policies that institute continuing education opportunities and catch–up education opportunities for women.
- End child marriage through joint action implementing gender–transformative policies. Ensure that girls are legally protected from child marriage. Develop and implement social and behaviour change campaigns on ending child marriage and preventing early pregnancies.
- Develop policies and programs that keep girls in school, including tuition incentives for girls, school feeding programs and improved water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure in schools and communities.
- Promote child protection and safeguarding mechanisms for all children to ensure safety and well–being, including protection from violence at home and in schools.