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Unlocking Women's and Girls’ Potential: The status of women and girls relative to men and boys in Guinea
World Bank - 2023
Evidence shows that Guinean women and girls face important barriers across all dimensions of well-being that prevent them from having access to opportunities on an equal footing with men. The poor agency of women and girls, as reflected in the high prevalence of discriminatory legal and social...
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Universal Secondary Education (USE) in Guyana
World Bank - 2013
In 2002, Guyana adopted a broadly-based five year plan (2003-2007) to achieve universal secondary education (USE), with a strategy to convert secondary classes in primary schools and grade 7-10 community high schools into General Secondary Schools (GSS) in which all students could present for...
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Voice and agency : empowering women and girls for shared prosperity
Klugman, Jeni - 2014
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Getting girls into school : evidence from a scholarship program in Cambodia
Schady, Norbert Rudiger - 2006
"Increasing the schooling attainment of girls is a challenge in much of the developing world. The authors evaluate the impact of a program that gives scholarships to girls making the transition between the last year of primary school and the first year of secondary school in Cambodia. They show...
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Enhancing women's participation in economic development
1994
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An Operational Approach to Enhancing Women's and Girls’ Empowerment in World Bank Projects
World Bank - 2023
Gender equality has long been central to the World Bank's twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared …
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Unlocking the Potential of Women and Adolescent Girls in Madagascar - Challenges and Opportunities in Education
World Bank - 2023
This thematic note is part of a broader mixed-method study on gender inequalities in Madagascar, which intends to … illustrate the key gender gaps in the country and shed light on the unique challenges that young Malagasy women face in their … the impacts of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, which further widen preexisting gender gaps and amplify …
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Unlocking the Potential of Women and Adolescent Girls in Madagascar - Challenges and Opportunities in Increasing Women's and Girls’ Economic Empowerment
World Bank - 2023
This thematic note is part of a broader mixed-method study on gender inequalities in Madagascar, which intends to … illustrate the key gender gaps in the country and shed light on the unique challenges that young Malagasy women face in their … the impacts of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, which further widen preexisting gender gaps and amplify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014578970
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Unlocking the Potential of Women and Adolescent Girls in Madagascar - Challenges and Opportunities in Enhancing Girls' and Women’s Agency
World Bank - 2023
This thematic note is part of a broader mixed-method study on gender inequalities in Madagascar, which intends to … illustrate the key gender gaps in the country and shed light on the unique challenges that young Malagasy women face in their … the impacts of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, which further widen preexisting gender gaps and amplify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014579028
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Empowering Girls and Women in South Sudan
World Bank - 2023
This advisory services and analytics (ASA) study focuses on the empowerment of South Sudanese girls and women. The report provides a cohesive overview of the barriers to empowering girls and women in South Sudan, as well as evidence-based programs and strategies that have been successful in the...
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