Grants and Contributions:

Girls' Education for a Better Future in the Great Lakes Region

7412221 P007260001

$15,266,234.00

Dec 10, 2019 - Mar 31, 2025

This project aims to increase the empowerment of girls, adolescent girls and women through education, including those who are refugees, displaced, returning to their countries of origin and persons with disabilities in the Great Lakes region. The project is a regional response to the educational needs of girls, adolescent girls and women. The project identified twenty-four primary and secondary schools in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda to benefit from its activities, with a total of 34,827 students between the ages of 5 and 18 (50% of whom are girls and 80% of whom are refugees/displaced persons). The project anticipates helping 22,172 girls enrolled in these schools (between the ages of 5 and 18, and of whom 73% are refugees or displaced persons) to experience an improvement in their education. 1,280 out-of-school girls and women will benefit from informal vocational training and support to develop income-generating activities and 6,300 women to strengthen their commitment to girls' education. This totals 22,314 empowered girls, adolescent girls and women as direct beneficiaries of the project. Project activities include: (1) conducting a participatory, holistic and gender-sensitive study on the individual status of girls and adolescent girls, including refugees, displaced persons, returnees and persons living with disabilities (RDRD), and the obstacles and specific demands related to their education; (2) developing, with the education staff, teaching and learning materials that are inclusive, gender-sensitive and adapted to the realities of the most vulnerable girls and adolescents, including RDRD; and (3) strengthening coordination mechanisms among local, national and regional actors involved in women's education to increase their participation and the consideration of their voices. The project is implemented by the Fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie and the Centre for International Studies and Cooperation in partnership with local partners, including Caritas in the DRC, Maison Shalom in Rwanda, the Concertation des collectifs des associations féminines de la région des Grands-Lacs and Humanité et inclusion (Handicap International).

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The expected results of this project include : (1) increased equitable access and retention of the most vulnerable girls and adolescent girls, including RDRD, in safe, quality and inclusive education; (2) improved equitable provision of innovative, safe, quality, gender-sensitive formal and non-formal education for the most vulnerable girls, adolescent girls and women, including RDRD; (3) increased voice and leadership of the most vulnerable girls, adolescent girls and women, including RDRD, in decision-making processes that affect them and in claiming their right to education.

Montreal, Quebec, CA H2Y 2R6

064-2019-2020-Q4-00221

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Amendment #2 reflects an increase in the value of the agreement, and an extension to the expiry date

Mar 25, 2024

Fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie

Fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie

Ville-Marie--Le Sud-Ouest--Île-des-Soeurs

24077