The Rwandan government enacted a policy that provides all Rwandan children with Twelve years of fee-free education. Yet, girls are still dropping out of school at far higher rates than their male counterparts. YOMADO hopes to eliminate this gap through its threefold approach, which pairs girls with mentors, organizes savings and loans groups, and implements community community score cards to keep girls at School
The Government of Rwanda has a policy framework to ensure fee-free, nine year basic education for all Rwandan children. Nevertheless, girls continue to be less likely to complete their schooling than boys. In 2017, only 68% of girls progressed from secondary 3 to upper secondary, compared to 92% of boys. The challenge is keeping girls at school.
The program works with girls to overcome these issues and make the transition from lower to upper secondary school. The National Institute of Statistics found in 2017 that only 68% of girls make this transition, as opposed to 92% of boys. YOMADO hopes to eliminate this gap through its threefold approach, which pairs girls with mentors, organizes savings and loans groups, and implements community community score cards to keep girls at school
Project's intended impact is that girls remain at school and complete at least secondary education.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
