Blogs

08 September 2024

When marginalised adolescent girls in Malawi, Nepal and Ethiopia were asked to identify the benefit they valued the most from their involvement in a GEC project, the top of their list was ‘improved literacy’. Literacy opens the door to other forms of knowledge. It enables girls to navigate and succeed in the labour market, and research consistently links higher literacy levels with better education and health outcomes for their children. When projects placed girls' empowerment at the centre of their approach, girls' literacy skills improved – and so did their sense of self-worth and agency. Read how they did this....