Virtuous Spiral for Girls' Secondary Education

12 Aug

MLC VANGUARD | Created by CAMFED

We have developed and scaled a model of support for girls’ education that responds to each girl’s individual and changing needs and builds a structure of support around her so that she can access a quality education and succeed. CAMFED’s innovative model works at scale by unlocking significant local resources to complement and extend donor funding.

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1,666,625 Lives Impacted

Girls’ education is the starting point for securing the rights of women and girls globally. Investing in girls’ education is also one of the most powerful ways of tackling the climate emergency. It leads to healthier, better educated families; unlocks educated women’s leadership for sustainable prosperity and reduced carbon emissions; and improves adaptation and resilience to climate shocks in the world’s most marginalized communities.

CAMFED creates the support system through which the most vulnerable girls can go to school, thrive and successfully transition from school to a secure livelihood. They will in turn join the CAMFED Association of young women leaders whose members each support an average of three more girls to go to school through their individual and collective philanthropy.

The Innovation

CAMFED’s holistic support package includes material and wraparound support to meet girls’ material, financial, and psychosocial needs in order to overcome the poverty-related and other barriers to education. CAMFED’s innovative model works at scale by unlocking significant local resources to complement and extend donor funding available to support children in school.

Since 2015, in addition to tracking girls supported through international donor funding, CAMFED has been tracking the number of girls in secondary schools directly benefiting from reciprocal support catalyzed by CAMFED’s program, specifically support provided by two key stakeholder partner groups: (1) members of the CAMFED Association – young women who have been supported through school by CAMFED and who voluntarily join CAMFFED’s alumnae network, and (2) community members, including members of Parent Support Groups and School Based Committees to whom CAMFED provides training and/or grants for initiatives through which, they pay for girls’ school-going needs, provide school meals, or construct boarding and hygiene facilities for girls.

About CAMFED

CAMFED is a pan-African movement revolutionizing how girls’ education is delivered. Through a gold-standard system of accountability to the young people and communities we serve, we have created a model that radically improves girls’ prospects of becoming independent, influential women. Our impact increases exponentially through the Association of young women educated with CAMFED’s support. Together, we multiply the number of girls in school and accelerate their path to livelihoods and leadership.