A fair chance - United Nations Girls' Education Initiative

Female teachers1.Increase the number of female teacher quotas bymobilising local graduates and feeder hostelgraduates.2.Residence, child-care and health facilities should beprovided for the female teachers.3.Policy advocacy for permanent employment forfemale teachers.Physical facilities1.Provide adequate physical facilities such as toiletsand classrooms.2.Sufficient classrooms with adequate seats for girls.3.Create a safe and enabling environment for girls tocomplain and discuss their needs and priorities.4.Allocate resource for research and studies.Different experiences and research studies have alreadyproven that the increase in participation of females ineducation and their socio-economic development has adirect correlation with the overall development of thecountry.Involve women in the preparation of policy, plans andprogrammes so that the policy, plan and programmeare workable and progressive.1.Continue to monitor and evaluate the programme.2.Gender-sensitive curriculum and textbooks.4.Functional, non-formal, basic education must bepromoted on a priority basis for the out- of-schoolgirls and women.5.All women’s literacy programmes must have savingand credit associations. The adult women should begiven parenting education so as to promote theirdaughters’ education. NGOs should be encouragedto establish and manage cooperative formal schoolsof all levels for girls and women.6.All the girls’ incentive programmes such asscholarship, hostel facilities, free textbooks, freeuniforms and midday meals, should be reviewedfrom time to time to make them more effective andto ensure that the needy and deserving students arebenefiting from them.7.It is found that illiterate women become victims ofgirls trafficking in Nepal. Therefore, there must be aspecial programme for those areas where theproblem is most rife. Those girls who have beeninfected with HIV and AIDS due to this illegalpractice should be rehabilitated with propertreatment and education in order to be self-reliant.8.Husbands/fathers should be provided with propereducation to understand how women’s education willhelp to enhance family welfare through betternutrition, family planning, environmentalconservation, etc.3.Recruit more female teachers, supervisors andadministrators.63