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Using Fundamentals to Better Build Back Girl’s Education 

Brookings Jan 19, 2021
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Using Fundamentals to Better Build Back Girl's Education 
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Giving Compass' Take:

• This article from Brookings discusses understanding how COVID-19 has changed the fundamentals of education for girls and how to improve gender-related problems.

• What barriers still exist today for girls to get access to adequate education? How have global crises threatened girls’ education? Where can donors help fill the gaps?

• Learn more about why girls are often left behind in education. 

 


The world has changed dramatically over the last 10 months. In the midst of such broad changes, we might be tempted to throw away our old ways of doing things and figure out a new approach to meeting the needs of women and girls around the world.

But with regard to gender equality in education, many of the fundamentals have stayed the same, and our challenge is to figure out how to update our work to this new reality, while not forgetting the commitments and goals—and other challenges—that preceded COVID-19.

This spring, the Population Council’s GIRL Center launched the Evidence for Gender and Education Resource (EGER), a searchable, easy-to-use, interactive database to drive better education results for girls, boys, and communities around the world. It includes information on current practice (who is doing what, where?), current evidence (what has worked in some settings?) and current needs (where do challenges remain?) in global girls’ education. Based on insights from EGER, we will be launching a 2021 Roadmap for Girls’ Education in the coming months.

Read the full article about building girls’ education by Stephanie Psaki and Karen Austrian at Brookings.

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    Giving Compass' Take: • Thomas Gegenhuber reports that Germany's government-hosted #WeVsVirus hackathon brought people together to address coronavirus.  • Could you support a similar effort in your community? What issues related to coronavirus can be addressed with this method?  • Learn about the potential of open source technology for philanthropy.  The inability of societal institutions to cope with a crisis warrants experimenting with a social innovation approach that rapidly brings together government, civil society, and the private sector. When civilian tech companies and organizations recently proposed an online hackathon to find solutions to the COVID-19 crisis, German politicians seized the opportunity and, within days, launched Germany’s first government-hosted crisis hackathon: #WeVsVirus, or #WirVsVirus in German. The effort not only produced viable and useful technical solutions, but also empowered thousands of participants to take action, learn, and create alongside others. Hackathons are a novel organizing practice that have proven their worth in many different fields. They provide a dynamic, flexible setting, based largely on self-organization, in which creativity can flourish. Participants typically meet up in a physical space, form teams, and focus on solving a specific technical problem for a set amount of time. Hackathons are also a tool for driving open social innovation. In a governmental context, this means creating solutions to social challenges by opening up development to people and organizations outside government. Local governments like the City of Toronto, NASA, NSF, and the United Nations have all used hackathons to address social problems. What made the #WeVsVirus hackathon unique was its unprecedented urgency and scale. Though guidelines usually recommend three months preparation time, #WeVsVirus came together in just four days, and organizers were overwhelmed by public interest in the event: A total of 42,968 people signed up and 26,581 participated, making it the world’s largest hackathon to date. Read the full article about the #WeVsVirus hackathon by Thomas Gegenhuber at Stanford Social Innovation Review.


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