Girls Education
Through the Girls’ Opportunities to Access Learning program, funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Threshold Grant to Liberia, USAID is working to increase girls’ enrollment, attendance and retention in primary schools in Lofa, Bong, and Grand Bassa counties. At the national level, the project addresses the challenge of overage enrollment and broadens the impact of the Program’s efforts through its support to the Ministry of Education to update its National Policy on Girls’ Education. Results of research undertaken during the project will provide an evidence base to determine which interventions resulted in the greatest change in key outcomes, and will assist Liberia in addressing policy areas for improvement to close the gender gap in primary schooling.