• STAR-Ghana Foundation’s G-REP gears up for purposive discussions with key partners, stakeholders.

Efforts to facilitate access to quality education for girls continues to be frustrated by avoidable barriers confronting parents, girls and other actors vested in girls’ education.

STAR-Ghana Foundation (SGF) recognizes the need to tackle these pervasive barriers to girls’ continuous access to education, to wit, proposed discussions would be held in collaboration with relevant partners and other stakeholders in the education sector.

A zonal forum for the northern sector in Tamale scheduled for February 2^nd , would kick-start the conversations which will be centred primarily on voices and perspectives of schoolgirls, community leaders, parents, education managers, CSOs, and MMDAs. 

Recommendations from the zonal convening and the scoping review undertaken by SGF will provide input for the national convening on February 14^th, 2023, in Accra. This will bring together policy makers and implementers, development partners, relevant Parliamentary committees, and Civil Society Organisations.

The fora are expected to among other objectives provide a platform for building consensus among stakeholders and renew commitment toward collaborations on strategies to secure girls continuous access to quality education. 

For both convenings, participants will span various actors including state agencies specifically, the Ministry of Education, Ghana Education Service, Girls Education Unit, Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. Additionally, CSOs, NGOs, development partners, traditional and religious authorities, and community-led structures that promote girls’ education and development partners.   

G-REP

The Gender Rights and Empowerment Programme (G-REP) is a Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) funded project aimed at contributing to increased access to rights and quality social services for women and girls. The programme which covers 42 districts in 6 regions, including three in northern Ghana, Central, Eastern and Volta regions is intended at increasing the effectiveness of civil society advocacy for women and girls’ political and social rights, particularly rights to inclusive and quality social services and participation in public governance at the national and sub-national levels.