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Training for girls’ education at community level held
« on: November 27, 2017, 01:16:12 PM »
Training for girls’ education at community level held
Islamabad:27 November: Community activists from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa gathered in Islamabad to attend advanced level training on creating demand for girls’ education at the community level.
Organised by Pakistan Youth Change Advocates (PYCA), the three-day training under the initiative, ‘Empowerment of the Girl Child through Sustained Education’ trained participants on organising community activities for encouraging girl education.
Talking about PYCA’s vision and mission Hisham Khan, Capacity Building Officer at PYCA shared that according to UNESCO’s Education for All 2015 National Review, the proportion of females marginally declines as education level increase in Pakistan.
Talking specifically about the indicators of girls’ education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa he added, “The net enrolment rate of girls at the primary level stands at 51 per cent in the province, however this sharply declines to 17 per cent in middle schools and is only 8 per cent in high schools.”
It is to address this alarming situation that Pakistan Youth Change Advocates initiated a 3 year intervention in six districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that will strive to create demand for girls’ education at the community level and lobby with policy makers and parliamentarians to provide the necessary infrastructure and legal environment to meet this newly created demand.
While commenting on PYCA’s programme one of the participants shared, "This training was very important because the issue of girls' enrolment holds a lot of significance in Pakistan and particularly, in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Whatever I have learnt here will help me while mobilizing the communities to send their daughters to schools."
In the next phase of the programme, the capacitated activists will reach out to different stakeholders including parents, community leaders, local government officials, policy makers and parliamentarians in an effort to create an enabling environment to ensure sustained education for girls at the secondary level.The news.
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