COVID-19 Girls and Resilient Education

The " Resilient Girls and Education (FIÈRES)” project aims to empower women and girls in the Segou Mopti and Timbuktu regions of Mali especially the most vulnerable populations through improved access to quality equitable adapted and flexible education and learning. Project activities include: (1) raising awareness and mobilizing community and religious leaders local authorities and women's and youth associations about the rights of girls and teenagers. This awareness-raising and mobilization will also focus on the primacy of education; (2) organizing consultation activities around the reopening of schools and the return or recruitment of qualified teachers; (3) developing learning continuation or catch-up mechanisms adapted to the needs of girls and teenagers in the event of insecurity health crisis malfunction or closure of targeted schools; (4) implementing non-formal educational alternatives adapted to reach the most vulnerable girls and teenagers; (5) implementing protection mechanisms focusing on health and safety in schools and on the roads leading to them; and (6) developing a quality vocational training program adapted to the needs of women and teenagers leaving the formal school system.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased access for girls and teenagers especially the most vulnerable to equitable and appropriate education within protective communities committed to the respect of their rights; (2) improved learning conditions (safe quality gender-focused) favoring the retention success and fulfillment of girls and teenagers; and (3) increased participation of women and girls in the decision-making processes that concern them within their schools and places of learning communities and on the job market.