Jenna

=Jenna=

CIA Factbook of Illiteracy: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2103.html

Millennium Goals: http://www.unfpa.org/icpd/goals/goal_2.htm

Women's education could improves
 * poverty
 * family sizes
 * education of children
 * health care
 * nutrition
 * civil/political rights

__**UNFPA = United Nations Population Fund**__
In Jamaica, through an alliance with the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation and funding from the [|European Union], UNFPA supported a programme that enabled thousands of girls to return to school following pregnancies and to acquire technical skills.

In a [|UNFPA-supported project] in **Bolivia**, women are learning to read in their indigenous language while learning about reproductive health, safe motherhood and health insurance. In **Mali**, a literacy project reaches adolescents both in and out of school, with a focus on migrant girls, domestic workers, victims of violence and abuse, and those living on the margins of society. In **Mauritania**, UNFPA is collaborating on an educational initiative in four of the poorest regions of the country. The initiative aims to reduce the dropout rate by half and equip at least 5,000 girls with a range skills, from home economics and information technology to environmental preservation.

Other links: http://www.unfpa.org/index.htm http://www.un.org/womenwatch/asp/user/list.asp-ParentID=3002.htm

__**UNICEF:**__
"As a children’s agency, UNICEF is interested in the whole child and has adopted an integrated, intersectoral approach to education. Providing children with quality basic education consolidates gains in other UNICEF priority areas. These include: promoting child survival and development; protecting children from abuse and exploitation; ensuring clean water and sanitation and safe environments for children; fighting HIV and AIDS; and ensuring adolescent development and participation." Follows education strategy:
 * Equal access and universal primary completion
 * Empowerment through girls’ education and gender equality: United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI);create gender eqaulity in education; promotes life skills-based education; and it supports female role models in education
 * Emergencies and post-crisis education: sets up safe learning spaces as part of the humanitarian response to emergencies; provides basic facilities and supplies for quality learning and other essential needs.
 * Early Childhood Development (ECD) and school readiness: ensure all children start school on time and complete a quality basic education include: parenting education; community-based ECD programes; formal preschool programes that use national standards for school readiness; and the Child-to-Child School Readiness initiative.
 * Enhancing quality in primary and secondary education: UNICEF promotes the CFS model as a packaged approach addressing all aspects of quality in education from a child-centred perspective. CFS models help countries to respond systematically to quality issues in education and help set standards for improvement in areas ranging from school infrastructure to learning outcomes.

__**Room To Read:**__
left Microsoft to start libraries in countries such as India and Nepal Have girls scholarships community project

Sources: http://www.unfpa.org/gender/empowerment2.htm http://www.unfpa.org/adolescents/education.htm http://www.unicef.org/girlseducation/index_action.html