Strategies for Advancing Girls' Education (SAGE)

A key SAGE strategy was conducting research on educational quality and best practices for girls’ education with the aim of advancing technical knowledge around topics in girls' education - to the end of fostering implementation of related policies, strategies, and programmes. This research was then communicated through two key means. First, SAGE organised workshops that brought together policy makers, practitioners, advocates and scholars to share knowledge and disseminate strategies for advancing girls’ education. Second, SAGE developed a website to share the details about these workshops, as well as to enable download of the publications to emerge from the research process.

This website also provides information about each individual participating country's activities, which shared the goal of moving from dialogue on girls’ education to the implementation of locally-derived solutions that engage the support of all sectors of society. In general, and in brief, SAGE activities included:

• mobilising leaders from the business and religious sectors to become advocates of girls’ education
• designing/facilitating workshops for local radio station personnel and other public communicators to highlight the value of girls’ education
• designing girls’ mentoring and life skills programmes
• working closely with communities to surface locally initiated and funded solutions to resolve persistent girls’ education constraints
• implementing curriculum revisions to include life skills for girls
• arranging national conferences for consensus-building for girls’ education
• facilitating the initiation of national funds in support of girls’ education
• training teachers in girl-friendly classroom practices
• organising training that fosters replicability of innovative programmes
• setting up monitoring systems to measure intermediate results and indicators of impact.

Education, Girls.