Promoting Girls' Education
The key priorities that the Educate HER coalition will focus on are:
Sustainable Systems for Evidence- Based Decision Making
Capacity Building and Coordination
Adequate Financial Investment
Sustainable Systems for Evidence- Based Decision Making
Lack of access to information poses a significant challenge to policy implementation and to effective civil society advocacy for this purpose. Improving the availability of and access to disaggregated data on girls’ education will better inform policy-making and implementation, including school policies and gender-specific programming. Making that data accessible to civil society organizations and the public will increase civic participation as it relates to holding officials accountable for girls’ education.
There is a need to enhance strategic partnerships among the Government of Liberia line ministries, civil society organizations, and other education stakeholders for increased awareness, coordination and monitoring, capacity, and commitment on policies supporting girls’ education. This will improve cross-sector policies and plans, and stimulate cross-sector dialogue, for the effective implementation of the NPGE.
Capacity Building and Coordination
Adequate Financial Investment
No matter how much capacity we build, coordination we strengthen or commitment we engender, the policy will not be implemented without adequate funding to do so. Many of the problems and challenges that countries face are most directly addressed through the government’s budget process. A country may want to ensure that all its children have access to high-quality education. The government can pass a law requiring that all children be enrolled in school, but if the budget doesn’t include funds to build schools, hire and train teachers and administrators, and provide logistics, there will be little chance of the enrollment requirement resulting in the desired outcome.