Project profile — Advancing Quality Education and School-Related Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights - FASE

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved access to education for over 6.5 million school-aged children, half of whom are girls; (2) improved quality of education for over 6.5 million girls and boys; and (3) improved sexual and reproductive health and rights for girls in the education system, including reduced gender-based violence in schools.

Results achieved as of December 2019 include: (1) increased primary school access for up to grade six children by 6.9 million (of whom 3.335 million are girls) with the addition of 1,898 classrooms; (2) the quality of education improved from 93% in 2006 by providing school grants and resources to all primary schools in 2018 and 2019; (3) provided 15 million textbooks in 2019, bringing the total to 71.8 million since 2015; (4) trained 5,748 teacher graduates (of whom 50.3% are women) in 2019, bringing the total to 27,341 since 2016; (5) trained 1,643 school directors (of whom 463 are women) in 2019, bringing the total trained to 6,843; and (6) provided adult literacy training to 212,968 youth and adults (of which 138,754 were women).