Empowering girls and women through education: a multidimensional approach

The project will support a critical mass of marginalised girls in five districts of rural Malawi to attend upper primary school and transition to secondary education through a holistic model of material and wraparound psychosocial support. Building on the achievements and learnings from CAMFED's previous project under DFID's Keeping Girls in School (KGIS) programme, the project will draw on the network of rural young women supported to complete school through CAMFED's programme under KGIS through the introduction of the Learner Guide model. Learner Guides will volunteer weekly in schools and support marginalised children in their studies, delivering a uniquely tailored life skills and wellbeing programme to complement the academic curriculum. More widely, it is intended to bring a spotlight to the obstacles girls face in accessing quality education and provide the catalyst needed for mobilising and reinforcing public accountability around girls' welfare and entitlements, across local communities, school management and goverment ministries, in order to provide sustainable support for generations of marginalised rural girls and young women.