Strengthening inclusion across the Girls’ Education Challenge

The Girls’ Education Challenge is a flagship FCDO programme that’s provided unique and comprehensive learning for understanding how to overcome barriers to quality education for marginalised girls; learning generated by this programme is intended to improve the delivery of girls’ education, creating a legacy that will support future practice, programme design and research.

Impel worked with the Fund Manager (PwC) to strengthen the inclusiveness of the Girls’ Education Challenge, including the inclusion of learners marginalized on the basis disability across 41 projects in 17 countries. We worked to strengthen programme-level systems and structures to strengthen focus across the programme portfolio on disability inclusion. We also provided bespoke technical advice and support to individual projects, to help ensure project design and planning as well as implementation responded to barriers to education experienced by girls with disabilities in each given context.   

 A recent evaluation of the Girls’ Education Challenge by Tetra Tech found that across the portfolio, there was an improvement in the learning engagement and outcomes of girls with disabilities, particularly their ability to read and write over the course of the interventions.