Safe Schools Initiative: Protecting the Right to Learn in Nigeria

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Safe Schools

Since Safe Schools Nigeria was originally published in the spring of 2014, more than $30 million has been mobilized to protect schools in Northeast Nigeria. To date, nearly 50,000 Nigerian children displaced from their homes by Boko Haram have benefited from student transfer programs, school reconstruction programs, or education strategies within IDP camps organized by the Safe Schools Initiative. (more…)

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The Journey of a Girl: Opportunities for Business Investment in Girls’ Education

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The Journey of a Girl: Opportunities for Business Investment in Girls’ Education

Released on the International Day of the Girl Child, ‘The Journey of a Girl’ shows how businesses must invest at every stage of a girl’s education journey to overcome the many barriers that keep her from reaching her full potential. This working paper, commissioned by GBC-Education, surveyed 32 companies investing in girls’ education, and found that while there is a strong focus on empowering girls in the secondary years, less than 10% of corporate education budgets are directed to pre-primary education. (more…)