Malala Fund for Girls' Right to Education

To date, 10 countries have received support from the Fund and benefited from South-South cooperation. They include Cambodia, Egypt, Guatemala, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tanzania and Viet Nam. The Malala Fund for Girls’ Right to Education provides opportunities for sharing knowledge and best practices on strengthening girls’ access to quality and gender-responsive education and on ensuring safe learning environments. In Tanzania, for example, more than 2,500 girls benefitted from the creation of safe spaces in 40 secondary schools and 120 teachers and 620 students received training on how to manage these spaces, using tools developed by UNESCO. Eighty-two teachers were also trained in gender-responsive pedagogy, human rights education, anti-bullying and sexual and reproductive health education. Retention has increased among girls at these sites through reductions in teenage pregnancies.

In Mozambique, more than 50 technicians (80 per cent female) have been trained in family literacy and over 580 young women, mothers, caregivers and parents (95 per cent female) have built literacy, language and numeracy skills. Thirteen classes implement regular literacy programmes, benefiting around 475 learners (71 per cent female). In Egypt, UNESCO is enhancing the literacy skills of 940 women and girls and building their life skills for health, livelihoods and citizenship engagement through Community Learning Centres (CLCs). A Training of Trainers programme has been piloted and finalized, and 60 literacy facilitators have been trained from four governorates.