The Journey of a Girl: Opportunities for Business Investment in Girls’ Education
Strategy and Guides
Released on the International Day of the Girl Child, ‘The Journey of a Girl’ shows how businesses must invest at every stage of a girl’s education journey to overcome the many barriers that keep her from reaching her full potential. This working paper, commissioned by GBC-Education, surveyed 32 companies investing in girls’ education, and found that while there is a strong focus on empowering girls in the secondary years, less than 10% of corporate education budgets are directed to pre-primary education. (more…)
During each stage of her educational journey, a girl faces barriers that keep her from reaching her full potential.1 But in these stages, there are opportunities for corporate investment to make a transformational and systemic change for girls. By joining up the dots between barriers during a girls’ journey, smart investments and projects, and largescale systems change, girls’ education investments can bridge the gap for millions of girls and young women each year.
This report outlines the various stages of a girls’ development, barriers that may interfere with a girls’ education, and how companies are implementing programs and making investments to break down the barriers.