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Female Equality & Empowerment In Africa

Female Equality & Empowerment In Africa

Girls and young women entering the 21st century job market will need skills and knowledge that can be developed throughout their lifetime. They need our support at every step along the way.

When thinking about girls’ education, picturing little girls sat at desks in African schools is not enough.  To really help girls to lead a successful life, we need to pay equal attention to what happens before and after  school.

Early Childhood Development: First give girls a strong foundation through early childhood development (ECD). Disadvantages built early in life are difficult to remedy, but effective ECD programs can avoid such disadvantages and thereby yield high payoffs.  ECD programs build the technical, cognitive, and behavioral skills conducive to high productivity later in life. Successful interventions emphasize, among other areas, nutrition, stimulation, and basic cognitive skills.

Basic Education For Girls: The second step focuses on basic education. Gaps remain, to be sure: Data suggests that in 24 low-income countries, only 34% of girls in the poorest 20% of households complete primary school, compared with 72% of girls in the richest 20% of households. These income-related gaps can be reduced through interventions to reduce the opportunity cost of schooling for girls, such as conditional cash transfers.

Job Skills, Training & Employability: Education for its own sake certainly has an intrinsic value, but education and training that proves useful in the workplace is also essential.  The third step in helping girls grow is to provide them with job-relevant skills that employers actually demand, or that they can use in launching their own business.

Self Employment & Business Start Ups: Step four relates to the creation of an environment that encourages investments in knowledge and creativity.  This requires innovation-specific skills and investments to help connect people with ideas, as well as risk management tools that facilitate innovation.  Again, girls are at a disadvantage when compared with boys, with fewer opportunities and, therefore, lower rates of entrepreneurship in many countries.

Women’s Rights In The Workplace: Finally, and this is the fifth and last step, it is important that societies promote flexible, efficient, and secure labor markets. Apart from avoiding rigid job protection regulations while strengthening income protection systems, providing intermediation services for workers and firms is important to transform skills into actual employment and productivity.

In West Africa 16 million girls are not in school due to complex social, political, traditional and economical factors. Everything from marriage practices to disease to poverty to seasonal labour requirements contribute to this catastrophe.


Using ballet, dance and the performing arts, the Ballet Hss Decided mission is to help these young underprivileged girls to get into school, expand their horizons, explore their creativity and build the friendships, confidence and self esteem to live a better life. Get Involved

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