By Lincoln G. Peters
The Educate HER Coalition, in collaboration with the Ministry of Training (MOE), held a two-day Nationwide stakeholders’ dialogue to boost the implementation and monitoring of the nationwide coverage on Ladies’ Training.
The nationwide coverage on Ladies’ Training adopts a complete method to addressing vital points akin to early marriage, teenage being pregnant, gender-based violence, financial limitations, and dangerous cultural practices, all of which considerably impede ladies’ instructional alternatives.
The dialogue introduced collectively improvement companions, legislators, educators, authorities officers, and representatives from civil society organizations to judge progress, pinpoint challenges, and devise methods for the longer term.
The Educate HER mission is supported by the Training Out Loud Initiative, funded by the World Partnership for Training (GPE).
Through the occasion, the Minister of Training, Dr. Jarso Jallah, launched a Ladies’ Training scorecard that highlights developments made in indicators established within the NPGE.
The Ladies’ Training Scorecard, 1st Version-2025, supplies an outline of Liberia’s progress in implementing the Nationwide Coverage on Ladies’ Training (NPGE) for the interval 2021–2025. It employs 21 indicators to judge entry, retention, studying outcomes, security, fairness, and total system efficiency throughout all counties and forms of faculties
In her deal with, Training Minister Dr. Jarso Jallah careworn the necessity for collective motion and collaborative efforts to realize the coverage’s objectives inside Liberia’s instructional framework.
She asserted that the Nationwide Coverage on Ladies’ Training goes past mere paperwork; it symbolizes a dedication to daughters, sisters, and moms, promising to offer them with the required instruments to comprehend their potential and contribute positively to Liberia’s future.
Furthermore, Minister Jallah reiterated Liberia’s dedication to fairness and referred to as on all stakeholders to actively take part in ongoing efforts, emphasizing that the MOE will harness the momentum of the dialogue to foster steady collaboration, paving the best way for a extra promising future for women in Liberia.
The dialogue centered on a number of key themes, together with methods to extend ladies’ faculty enrollment, particularly in rural and underserved areas.
Different subjects included addressing causes of college dropout amongst ladies, like teenage being pregnant, monetary hardships, and inadequate parental assist, alongside enhancing the standard of schooling obtainable to women.
The institution of efficient monitoring and analysis techniques to trace the coverage’s progress and accountability will embody common reporting mechanisms that guarantee civil society organizations and worldwide companions stay knowledgeable and engaged in its implementation.
A big anticipated consequence of the dialogue is the institution of a number of working teams to plot particular motion plans and proposals to sort out the recognized challenges.
These suggestions might be built-in into the MOE’s strategic plan for the approaching years, guiding the continued implementation and evaluation of the Nationwide Coverage on Ladies’ Training.
Educate HER coalition is managed by Serving to Our Individuals Excel Liberia and Paramount Younger Ladies Initiative and is supported by Training Out Loud and funded by the World Partnership for Training (GPE).
