Zambia's GEWEL programme (World Bank/GoZ) delivers livelihood packages to poor rural women and school stipends to vulnerable girls. By end-2024: 139,351 women …
Lusaka, Zambia
Good practice★ 96
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
A UNESCO-Procter & Gamble literacy programme for 15-55 year-old girls and women across seven Senegalese regions, which added digital kits and TV/radio …
Dakar, Senegal
Good practice★ 92
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Technovation Girls has run girls' tech-entrepreneurship programmes in 120+ countries since 2010; an independent 2020 WestEd alumnae study found 76% of alumnae …
Menlo Park, United States of America
Good practice★ 89
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
SWEDD (World Bank/UNFPA) in Mali: safe spaces, midwife deployment, husbands' clubs and school-retention support since 2015. Girls' dropout in project areas fell …
National programme launched in June 2021 providing free period products in 2,100+ state schools, covering 97–98% of students. Over 600,000 packs distributed …
Wellington, New Zealand
Good practice★ 85
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Since 1978, Jamaica's WCJF has served 46,989 adolescent mothers (aged ≤17) in a school-continuity programme; ~70% return to formal schooling, repeat-pregnancy rate …
Two-year pilot in Amhara, Ethiopia (2004–2006) combining a conditional goat transfer for unmarried girls in school, safe-space mentoring and SRH education. Girls …
Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
Good practice★ 82
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported