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Module 4: Design with Her
2 RepliesThis course was so educative to me. The Girl Centered Design is pretty a useful tool in my work. Thank you do much to the team that has pieced this content together.
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I have learned a bout Girl centered Design. Kudos to the team that produced this course.
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I find the transformation of observations into insight very critical and exciting because it is at this point the intervention is designed. Therefore accurate and complete observations is equally critical as deriving accurate and detailed insights.
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Great!!!
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This was a very interesting topic.
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I too learned a lot and I was surprised about how interesting it can be
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The deep analysis requires critical thinking and team participation.
Always remember to make it participatory with your team to get richer insights and possible solution.
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Intensive and informative
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This module requires a lot of creative thinking and creativity. One thing I have learnt and I would like to share with my peers and offer suggestions on how to alleviate the challenges they faced is not to dismiss ideas during the initial brain storm sessions as all ideas are good, try and build on the ideas of others. stay focused on one insight at a time. Develop as many ideas as you can and to do lots of energizers to keep the group feeling positive and optimistic about creating ideas. Lastly, generate solutions by translating your insight statements into opportunities for design by reframing them as "how might we questions".
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this course GCD needs a lot of thinking but it was so educative.even for my organization that works with both boys and girls i find it helpful and am looking forward to apply the skills that i have gained during the course.
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it was interesting to learn more
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5he module,requires a heavy left, the expects lot of critical thinking and creativity, are their girls are on training for what would benefit them but for present and future,
By let the girls to place them into their Brainstorming that would significant for their source of income in life. -
over all got good knowledge form this course, how to give to give trust ,how girls share their experience and how to creat questioner and unmentioned valuable topics and information .
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Man! This last module was mind blowing. I felt like i would pop in any second due to the fact that i lost all the ideas and information in my head, the minute i saw the worksheet. But all in all, it was very informative and useful in terms of living life as a girl. It helped a lot in thing broadly and widely. Thank you so much...
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This weeks content was a bit heavy especially identifying the specific insight that works for the girls. It is important to fully understand the methodology behind designing with the girl and team work is essentially very important. Its important to ask questions and give suggestions where you deem fit. Generation of creative ideas and proper collaboration will allow the development of solutions that can eventually be of good use to the beneficiaries.
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It was actually an interesting session of finding out real issues and really designing solutions that will tackle the major problems. Challenging was the brainstorming sessions to really find out step by step what needs to be done as priority to tackle the major issue.
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This course has inspired and enlightened me more about the girl child and her life experiences.. Thank you.
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Many girls did not return to school after learning that they had had an Ebola case at their school.
The quality of instruction i slow in many of our community schools.
The school administration is keeping the money for the school lunchesCommunity animators (selected from within the community) in the same condition but with better results, to show the benefits of joining the program. The conversation could flow more with someone who has already experienced the problem (Ebola, dropping out of school, lack of qualified teachers) through community meetings, mapping the area with greater focus.
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Provide a strategy to identify the feasibilty study conducted and implement it to enable you achieved your goals and objectives successfully.
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Very insightful information
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This module was very interesting for me as it brought out an aspect of differentiating insights from observations and looking at how to seek solutions to these. I really enjoyed this module. It will be very helpful in my line of work. Thanks to the providers of the course.
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Indeed this module required a lot of critical thinking and activity. Certainly, a brainstorming board and post its are a great way to collate all your ideas and thoughts. Going through the readings a couples times if you have to also gives you a deeper understanging of the concepts you need to apply to GCD!
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Indeed this module required a lot of critical thinking and activity. Certainly, a brainstorming board and post its are a great way to collate all your ideas and thoughts. Going through the readings a couples times if you have to also gives you a deeper understanging of the concepts you need to apply to GCD!
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good topics
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Thank you so much it has been educative to me and it will help my organization since we work with both girls and boys in schools and community.
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My story is not of one girl but of many. It is the story of Malala from Pakistan. It
is the story of the sisters I have met from Syria and Nigeria who have been denied an education or been targeted for going to school. It is the story of millions
of sisters who I do not know by name, but who continue to struggle for what
should rightfully be theirs—a safe, free, quality education that allows them to
fulfil their dreams and transform the places in which they live.
Every girl, no matter where she lives, no matter what her circumstance, has a
right to learn. Every leader, no matter who he or she is or the resources available
to him or her, has a duty to fulfil and protect this right. Unfortunately, many
leaders are not taking this responsibility seriously. They spend their money in
other ways. They identify the problem as too large, or the solutions as unclear,
or the girls who miss out as deserving less than their own sons and daughters.
Getting millions of girls into school in the next 15 years may seem impossible
but it is not. The challenge is significant but the world does not lack the funds or
the knowledge to achieve 12 years of free, safe, quality primary and secondary
education for every girl—and every boy.
We have shown how the necessary funding can be found. This book now shows
what works to support girls’ education and helps us understand why. It also
makes it clear that the world cannot achieve a sustainable, peaceful, and prosperous future without investing in girls’ education.
The world’s leaders have just opened the door on a new future by agreeing to a set of
ambitious goals for our people and planet. But these will not be achieved without investment in girls’ education. How can we all succeed when half of us are held back?
This is why this book is needed now. To help us meet the ambition set out in
the new Sustainable Development Goals. To help us understand how we can
overcome the barriers to girls’ education which have stood for too long without
adequate understanding, challenge, or action to overcome them. To show the
world’s leaders that girls’ education is not only the right thing, but the smart
thing to do if we are to meet the new future they have opened to us.
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This book shows clearly what girls and women themselves have known across
generations: the world cannot afford to NOT educate its girls. Girls’ education is
the key to our new and better future. The key to increased health, prosperity, and
security. If the world’s leaders truly want to invest in this future then they must
deliver on their promises and start investing in books, in education—in hope for
girls who have too often been left behind.
Girls are desperate to learn and to lead. I have met many of my brave sisters
who every day encounter incredible obstacles to education, including war, poverty, and even personal attacks. Yet their knowledge for learning is never overwhelmed and they continue to show up. It is time that our commitment, determination, and action mirrors and honors theirs. This book helps us understand
how it can.
It helps us understand what we must do together to see the last girl forced to
marry rather than go to school, to work rather than learn, to be denied an education because her family cannot afford it, or fear for her safety when she leaves
for school. It helps us understand how girls who beat the odds and show up
for school can receive the education they deserve, the education that will allow
them to learn, grow and become leaders in their communities.
This book also reminds us that the world has set its ambition for education too low
for too long and shows how we can help girls stay in school for longer. A quality
basic education is a first and necessary step but if we are to truly see the power of
girls to transform our world we must aim higher and secure a full course of primary and secondary education for every girl. As my father always believed for me
and as I now believe for every girl, basic education begins to unlock girls’ potential
but secondary education provides them with the wings to fly: to transform not
only their lives but the lives of their families and their communities.
This book shows the world that it must do more for girls’ education if it is to
secure the future it wants. It also shows how this can be done from primary
through secondary school. But the reason I welcome this book above all else
is because it shows us that any efforts to get all girls into school will not work
unless they address the violence and conflict that can stop girls from learning.
This summer, as I said “goodbye” to my life as a child on my 18th birthday, I
stood with girls who had been forced to leave their country and flee to Lebanon,
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girls who had been forced to leave not just their homes but their schools. But
they refused to leave their education. To them the right to an education was just
as basic as the right to food or water. Yet the world is failing them by failing to
protect this right.
If we are to see our world transformed by educated and empowered girls then
we have to end violence against girls whose only crime is wanting an education—not just the violence of conflict but the violence of forced marriage, of
child labor, of targeted attacks, of assault or abduction in the classroom. This
book helps us understand how we can do so.
I am proud that the Malala Fund is a partner with the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and with Gene Sperling, its founder, and
Rebecca Winthrop, its current director, who are authoring this book. The future
of girls globally depends on all of us working together, across cultures and our
differences, joining together in this common cause. I’m grateful for their hard
work, which they have undertaken for decades.
It is my hope that the evidence this book presents encourages our leaders to
match the courage, determination and ambition of girls who struggle daily to
realize their right to an education. The challenge is significant but the knowledge
and funding are available to meet it. All that is needed is the action. I believe that
we can and will educate every girl. I hope that you will join us.
Malala Yousafzai
Student, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and Co-Founder of the Malala Fund
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CHAPTER 1
Introduction
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s Malala implies in her moving foreword to this book, there should
not be a need for a book like this on the evidence for the benefits of
girls’ education. For many, the idea that any child could be denied
an education due to poverty, custom, the law, or terrorist threats is
just wrong and unimaginable. Period. End of story. Indeed, those of us who have
worked to make the case for girls’ education with evidence, statistics, and case
studies know well that the millions of people around the world who recoiled at
hearing of girls being kidnapped in Nigeria, or shot in Pakistan, or threatened
in Afghanistan simply because they wanted an education did not need a book
of evidence to know it was wrong. They did not need academic studies or policy
analyses to know that little girls should have the same chances as their brothers
to learn; to contribute to their families, communities, and nations; and to make
good on their dreams.
And yet, we know that a thorough understanding of the evidence on why girls’ education matters and of the evidence on what works in educating girls is undeniably
essential. We understand that in virtually every nation, resources are scarce and that
those arguing for a greater investment in girls’ education must come to the table
with not only a soft heart but also hard-headed evidence on why the returns from
investing in girls are so high that no nation or family can afford not to educate their
girls. This book is for those who want to understand this evidence. It is designed
to provide easy and one-stop access to hundreds of studies on girls’ education for
any academic, expert, nongovernmental organization (NGO) staff member, policymaker, or journalist seeking to dive into the evidence and policies on girls’ education. But it is also designed and written for the concerned global citizen who simply
wants to better understand the issues and do their part in working for high-quality
girls’ education around the world. (This is the second time that the Center for Universal Education has sponsored the writing of such a book. An earlier version of this
book was also produced from the Center in 2004, with the coauthorship of longtime
girls’ education champion and expert Barbara Herz. Eleven years later, we felt that
A
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the proliferation of new studies, new developments, and new issues demanded a
second book, which we are proud to roll out, together with Malala and the Malala
Fund, along with the documentary on her fight for girls’ education.)
The Power of Evidence and Girls’ Education
Whether you are an expert or a generalist and concerned citizen, we think you
will find that there are two things about the evidence on girls’ education that are
both striking and profound:
• First, the evidence is extensive on education for girls in poor nations. The
sheer magnitude of evidence is undeniable. There are few if any policy areas in the world where the evidence is so deep and sweeping as are the
findings that support a far greater global commitment to girls’ education.
• Second, girls’ education is the world’s best investment with the widest-ranging returns. What the evidence contained in this book makes so
clear are the vast, wide-ranging, and multifaceted returns from investing
in girls’ education. Thus, this second aspect is why we believe that girls’
education is the best investment that can be made anywhere in the world.
In advanced nations, we are used to hearing the case for why education in
general contributes to wages, growth, and upward mobility. These returns
from education are just as strong in poorer nations as well. But what makes
girls’ education in developing nations truly the investment with the highest return in the world is the degree to which it leads to better outcomes
in not only the traditional economic areas of growth and incomes but also
in its positive impact in areas like reducing rates of infant mortality, maternal mortality, child marriage, and the incidence of HIV/AIDS and malaria, along with its positive impact on agricultural productivity, resilience
to natural disasters, and women’s empowerment. In chapter 2, this book
breaks down the evidence by categories in all these areas.
“Especially Girls”: Never Forgetting the Boys
One challenge in writing a book on girls’ education is the danger of giving the
impression that the crisis in education in many poor nations is just a girls’ issue.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The percentage of boys completing a -
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My story is not of one girl but of many. It is the story of Malala from Pakistan. It
is the story of the sisters I have met from Syria and Nigeria who have been denied an education or been targeted for going to school. It is the story of millions
of sisters who I do not know by name, but who continue to struggle for what
should rightfully be theirs—a safe, free, quality education that allows them to
fulfil their dreams and transform the places in which they live.
Every girl, no matter where she lives, no matter what her circumstance, has a
right to learn. Every leader, no matter who he or she is or the resources available
to him or her, has a duty to fulfil and protect this right. Unfortunately, many
leaders are not taking this responsibility seriously. They spend their money in
other ways. They identify the problem as too large, or the solutions as unclear,
or the girls who miss out as deserving less than their own sons and daughters.
Getting millions of girls into school in the next 15 years may seem impossible
but it is not. The challenge is significant but the world does not lack the funds or
the knowledge to achieve 12 years of free, safe, quality primary and secondary
education for every girl—and every boy.
We have shown how the necessary funding can be found. This book now shows
what works to support girls’ education and helps us understand why. It also
makes it clear that the world cannot achieve a sustainable, peaceful, and prosperous future without investing in girls’ education.
The world’s leaders have just opened the door on a new future by agreeing to a set of
ambitious goals for our people and planet. But these will not be achieved without investment in girls’ education. How can we all succeed when half of us are held back?
This is why this book is needed now. To help us meet the ambition set out in
the new Sustainable Development Goals. To help us understand how we can
overcome the barriers to girls’ education which have stood for too long without
adequate understanding, challenge, or action to overcome them. To show the
world’s leaders that girls’ education is not only the right thing, but the smart
thing to do if we are to meet the new future they have opened to us.
What Works in Girls Education-FINAL.indd 17 9/18/15 9:13 AM
xviii WHAT WORKS IN GIRLS’ EDUCATION
This book shows clearly what girls and women themselves have known across
generations: the world cannot afford to NOT educate its girls. Girls’ education is
the key to our new and better future. The key to increased health, prosperity, and
security. If the world’s leaders truly want to invest in this future then they must
deliver on their promises and start investing in books, in education—in hope for
girls who have too often been left behind.
Girls are desperate to learn and to lead. I have met many of my brave sisters
who every day encounter incredible obstacles to education, including war, poverty, and even personal attacks. Yet their knowledge for learning is never overwhelmed and they continue to show up. It is time that our commitment, determination, and action mirrors and honors theirs. This book helps us understand
how it can.
It helps us understand what we must do together to see the last girl forced to
marry rather than go to school, to work rather than learn, to be denied an education because her family cannot afford it, or fear for her safety when she leaves
for school. It helps us understand how girls who beat the odds and show up
for school can receive the education they deserve, the education that will allow
them to learn, grow and become leaders in their communities.
This book also reminds us that the world has set its ambition for education too low
for too long and shows how we can help girls stay in school for longer. A quality
basic education is a first and necessary step but if we are to truly see the power of
girls to transform our world we must aim higher and secure a full course of primary and secondary education for every girl. As my father always believed for me
and as I now believe for every girl, basic education begins to unlock girls’ potential
but secondary education provides them with the wings to fly: to transform not
only their lives but the lives of their families and their communities.
This book shows the world that it must do more for girls’ education if it is to
secure the future it wants. It also shows how this can be done from primary
through secondary school. But the reason I welcome this book above all else
is because it shows us that any efforts to get all girls into school will not work
unless they address the violence and conflict that can stop girls from learning.
This summer, as I said “goodbye” to my life as a child on my 18th birthday, I
stood with girls who had been forced to leave their country and flee to Lebanon,
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WHAT WORKS IN GIRLS’ EDUCATION xix
girls who had been forced to leave not just their homes but their schools. But
they refused to leave their education. To them the right to an education was just
as basic as the right to food or water. Yet the world is failing them by failing to
protect this right.
If we are to see our world transformed by educated and empowered girls then
we have to end violence against girls whose only crime is wanting an education—not just the violence of conflict but the violence of forced marriage, of
child labor, of targeted attacks, of assault or abduction in the classroom. This
book helps us understand how we can do so.
I am proud that the Malala Fund is a partner with the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and with Gene Sperling, its founder, and
Rebecca Winthrop, its current director, who are authoring this book. The future
of girls globally depends on all of us working together, across cultures and our
differences, joining together in this common cause. I’m grateful for their hard
work, which they have undertaken for decades.
It is my hope that the evidence this book presents encourages our leaders to
match the courage, determination and ambition of girls who struggle daily to
realize their right to an education. The challenge is significant but the knowledge
and funding are available to meet it. All that is needed is the action. I believe that
we can and will educate every girl. I hope that you will join us.
Malala Yousafzai
Student, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and Co-Founder of the Malala Fund
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CHAPTER 1
Introduction
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s Malala implies in her moving foreword to this book, there should
not be a need for a book like this on the evidence for the benefits of
girls’ education. For many, the idea that any child could be denied
an education due to poverty, custom, the law, or terrorist threats is
just wrong and unimaginable. Period. End of story. Indeed, those of us who have
worked to make the case for girls’ education with evidence, statistics, and case
studies know well that the millions of people around the world who recoiled at
hearing of girls being kidnapped in Nigeria, or shot in Pakistan, or threatened
in Afghanistan simply because they wanted an education did not need a book
of evidence to know it was wrong. They did not need academic studies or policy
analyses to know that little girls should have the same chances as their brothers
to learn; to contribute to their families, communities, and nations; and to make
good on their dreams.
And yet, we know that a thorough understanding of the evidence on why girls’ education matters and of the evidence on what works in educating girls is undeniably
essential. We understand that in virtually every nation, resources are scarce and that
those arguing for a greater investment in girls’ education must come to the table
with not only a soft heart but also hard-headed evidence on why the returns from
investing in girls are so high that no nation or family can afford not to educate their
girls. This book is for those who want to understand this evidence. It is designed
to provide easy and one-stop access to hundreds of studies on girls’ education for
any academic, expert, nongovernmental organization (NGO) staff member, policymaker, or journalist seeking to dive into the evidence and policies on girls’ education. But it is also designed and written for the concerned global citizen who simply
wants to better understand the issues and do their part in working for high-quality
girls’ education around the world. (This is the second time that the Center for Universal Education has sponsored the writing of such a book. An earlier version of this
book was also produced from the Center in 2004, with the coauthorship of longtime
girls’ education champion and expert Barbara Herz. Eleven years later, we felt that
A
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the proliferation of new studies, new developments, and new issues demanded a
second book, which we are proud to roll out, together with Malala and the Malala
Fund, along with the documentary on her fight for girls’ education.)
The Power of Evidence and Girls’ Education
Whether you are an expert or a generalist and concerned citizen, we think you
will find that there are two things about the evidence on girls’ education that are
both striking and profound:
• First, the evidence is extensive on education for girls in poor nations. The
sheer magnitude of evidence is undeniable. There are few if any policy areas in the world where the evidence is so deep and sweeping as are the
findings that support a far greater global commitment to girls’ education.
• Second, girls’ education is the world’s best investment with the widest-ranging returns. What the evidence contained in this book makes so
clear are the vast, wide-ranging, and multifaceted returns from investing
in girls’ education. Thus, this second aspect is why we believe that girls’
education is the best investment that can be made anywhere in the world.
In advanced nations, we are used to hearing the case for why education in
general contributes to wages, growth, and upward mobility. These returns
from education are just as strong in poorer nations as well. But what makes
girls’ education in developing nations truly the investment with the highest return in the world is the degree to which it leads to better outcomes
in not only the traditional economic areas of growth and incomes but also
in its positive impact in areas like reducing rates of infant mortality, maternal mortality, child marriage, and the incidence of HIV/AIDS and malaria, along with its positive impact on agricultural productivity, resilience
to natural disasters, and women’s empowerment. In chapter 2, this book
breaks down the evidence by categories in all these areas.
“Especially Girls”: Never Forgetting the Boys
One challenge in writing a book on girls’ education is the danger of giving the
impression that the crisis in education in many poor nations is just a girls’ issue.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The percentage of boys completing a -
I have learnt a lot about girl centered design
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Very educative
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Wonderful
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Freely given, enthusiastic consent is mandatory, every time.
Rather than listening for a “no,” make sure there is an active “yes,” from all involved. Adopt enthusiastic consent in your life and talk about it.
Phrases like “she was asking for it” or “boys will be boys” attempt to blur the lines around sexual consent, placing blame on victims, and excusing perpetrators from the crimes they have committed.
While those that use these lines may have fuzzy understandings of consent, the definition is crystal clear. When it comes to consent, there are no blurred lines.
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This course was insightful, knowledgeable, intense and very helpful. I have learned so much. , thank you
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This module was quite insightful.
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Very insightful information
