Educating Girls: Strategies to Increase Access, Persistence, and Achievement

摘要

The monograph reviews the interventions implemented by developing countriesgovernments, donors, and other institutions to increase girls' access to, persistence in, and achievement at the primary school level. It examines both the formal system of primary education and nontraditional, alternative approaches to reach out-of-school girls. The monograph employs an analytic model that categorizes interventions according to whether they address supply-side (school factors) or demand-side (household factors) barriers to girls' educational participation. Nontraditional approaches have succeeded in reaching girls prevented from attending school because of poverty and isolation. The monograph concludes that multidimensional approaches to girls' education that take into account local context and both supply and demand factors have proven most successful.