The United Kingdom (UK) launched Saturday a bilateral initiative worth up to £130 million to boost girls’ education in Pakistan, affecting over 17 million youngsters.
The Prime Minister’s Girls’ Education Action Plan, which was released in May of this year, outlines realistic strategies to achieve the UK’s worldwide goals for girls’ education. The programme, titled Girls and Out of School: Action for Learning (GOAL), would assist the governments of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) in improving results for girls and the most marginalised.
It will directly assist about 250,000 marginalised children in Punjab and KPK’s least developed districts in enrolling and remaining in school. It will also help an additional 150,000 girls learn to read by the age of ten.
GOAL to increase learning outcomes for at least 16.9 million children (7.8 million girls) by strengthening provincial education systems to promote education quality and equity, particularly teaching quality, and becoming more resilient post-Covid. In numerous Commonwealth countries, the programme will directly assist youngsters in gaining access to education and learning.
GOAL will implement improvements to make education more accessible, including ensuring that students are taught at their appropriate learning level and persuading others to adopt better educational practises.
“No nation can realise its full potential without 50 percent of its inhabitants,” declared UK High Commissioner to Pakistan Dr Christian Turner CMG. Getting girls into school is a critical growth driver. We want to give girls awaaz and marzi, as well as a voice and a choice, in order to unlock the potential of the future generation.”
