Women's Education

  • Lessons on the impact of COVID-19 on girls education in Africa
    ADEA,  Wednesday, March 16, 2022 - 18:08 

    Interventions that are likely to be impactful are those that are anchored on sound policies and strategies, are well-planned and resourced, are efficiently executed, and are effectively monitored and evaluated. This presupposes a ‘normal environment’ yet these conditions are hardly met fully during ‘normal times’ when it comes to Africa. And so, we find instances of glaring gaps between policy pronouncements and practice responses, with resources neither adequate nor targeted appropriately to fully implement programmes.

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  • The role of higher education in women’s empowerment
    ADEA,  Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 14:32 

    The International Women’s Day 2020 theme is "Iam Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights". This theme is aligned with the UN Women’s new multigenerational campaign, Generation Equality, which marks the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

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  • #RuralWomenDay: Education a key driver of rural women development
    ADEA,  Monday, December 17, 2018 - 21:48 

    It goes without saying in typical African traditional societies women are marginalized, discriminated upon and sometimes deprived of their rights. This is something they have endured for decades. The situation gets worse when we learn that world illiteracy levels are highest among rural women.

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  • Conflict disrupted my education but I did not give up
    ADEA,  Monday, December 17, 2018 - 21:49 

    My name is Agnes Feima Kenneh. I was born on the 16th February, 1993 in Sierra Leone. In 1991, war broke out in Sierra Leone that lasted for 11 years. My mother and father were in Kailahun District located in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone.

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