"AfDB funds Chad’s ‘Girls’ Education and Women’s Literacy project’ with $11 million"

" \n Board Directors of the African Development Bank has approved a grant of $11.26 million to the Government of Chad to finance the Girls' Education and Women's Literacy Project. \n \n\n \n The Board's approval of the grant makes it the first Bank grant exclusively targeting women and girls. \n \n\n \n The project will be financed from the Bank's Transition Support Facility and will be implemented over a five-year period by the Chadian Ministry of National Education and Civic Promotion, in coordination with partners involved in the education sector, civil society organisations, and youth organisations. \n \n\n \n The Chadian government will contribute a non-monetary contribution of $713,000 towards the programme. \n \n\n \n \"Through this financing, the African Development Bank is providing support to the Chadian government to reduce inequalities through access to education - especially for girls. This enables the development of job skills and the improvement of women's productivity potential through literacy, job training and the development of income-generating activities,\" said Solomane Kon\u00e9, the Bank\u2019s Deputy Director for Central Africa. \n \n\n \n The Project aims to help improve access to quality secondary education in a safe and healthy school environment for 5,000 girls as well as train 2,200 teachers and administrative officials. \n \n\n \n It is also expected to provide literacy programmes to more than 7,500 women in Chad\u2019s Hadjer Lamis, Ouadda\u00ef and N'Djam\u00e9na regions, The Bank-funded project has a component to raise awareness among target-area residents about reducing incidence of gender-based violence, as well as on the importance of girls' schooling to reduce early marriage and pregnancy. \n \n\n \n In Chad,\u00a067% of girls are married before the age of 18, and\u00a030% of girls\u00a0are married before the age of 15, according to non-governmental organization, Girls Not Brides. \n \n\n \n The Girls' Education and Women's Literacy Project plans to renovate or rebuild school buildings and institutions, such as the Amrigu\u00e9b\u00e9 school complex in N'Djamena that educates pre-primary, primary and high school children, and a new women's high school in Massakory, Hadjer Lamis region, which would receive educational, scientific and digital equipment. \n \n\n \n Project components have provisions to help supply both schools with safe drinking water, solar power, school clinics, build girl-friendly latrines, as well as establish computer and science laboratories. \n \n\n \n The Girls' Education and Women's Literacy Project is integrated into the Government of Chad\u2019s Interim Education Plan which is working to upgrade the nation\u2019s education system and strengthen human capital \u2013 education, health and well-being of children and youth - who will become Chad\u2019s working population of tomorrow. \n "

"AfDB funds Chad’s ‘Girls’ Education and Women’s Literacy project’ with $11 million"

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