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Preventing Child, Early & Forced Marriage
Professor Asha Kanwar, President & CEO
Frances Ferreira, Education Specialist
Commonwealth of Learning
24 November 2015, Women’s Forum
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The price of early marriage
“ If girls are not educated, they are compelled to early marriages. Most of these girls, who enter into early marriage, cannot even take care of themselves, so how can they take care of the hygiene of their children?”Religious leader in the Bihar,
India
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COL Strategic Plan 2015-2021COL recognizes that advancing the goals of both women’s empowerment and gender equality are central to ‘Learning for Sustainable Development’, and that distance learning can be especially helpful in enabling women and girls to access educational opportunities.
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Life after Primary? (2012)
Country Enrolment (GER)
Primary
Survival rate to last
primary grade
Enrolment (GER)Lower
Secondary
India 113% 61% 86%
Pakistan 92% 62% 52%
Mozambique 105% 32% 34%
Nigeria 85% 79% 46%
Uganda 107% 25% 31%
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics Data Center. Retrieved in June 2015
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Secondary education & economic opportunity
Education beyond primary level in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan & Sri Lanka find employment much faster
(Riboud, Savchenko & Tan, 2007)
• TVE skills gained in school not only increase retention and completion but result in a transition to work (Guison-Dowdy, 2012)
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What is Open Schooling? The physical separation of
learner from the teacher The use of unconventional
teaching methodologies, and information and communications technologies (ICTs)
Flexible approach
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Open Schooling – How?
Self-instructional materials
Local personal support at Study Centres/Online
State/NGO partnerships
Operate at scale using technology
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Skills Training blended approaches
Rehana Khatun, Poultry Farmer
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To provide equal opportunities to girls who are prevented to attend school by barriers such as: early marriages, cultural values, and distance from school.
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Empowering women and girls
Photo credit: Joshua Estey, DFAT Gallery
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Through the Girls & Women Initiative
COL will support 45,000girls and women for• secondary schooling
and • skills development for
livelihoods using open and distance learning
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High rates of child marriage
Source: The State of the World’s Children Report 2015 Statistical Tables: Child Marriages, UNICEF
Countries & Regions
Child marriage (%) 2005 - 2013*
Married by 15 Married by 18
Bangladesh 29 65Pakistan 3 21
India 18 47Mozambique 14 48
Tanzania 7 37
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Expanding access through open schools
“ Open schooling is very good especially for me; because when I decided to go back to finish my secondary education I was a bit nervous about being back in the classroom, since I had been out of school for 12 years…I believe that Open Schooling can help many in Belize to finish their education.Anna Lorenzo, Belize
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Learning for social change
“ My father wants girls to get married as early as possible. …So my father wants me to get married, but I did not want to destroy my life by getting married at an early age. I want to continue my study to become independent. Right now I am continuing my studies at the Open School in Dhaka with because I firmly believe that education can change my social position.”
Khadija Khatun, Grade 10 student in Bangladesh, 22 years old
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•Technical skills
• Financial Literacy
•Life Skills
The Model
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AptusAptus is an innovative, low-cost device developed by COL that allows learners in regions with poor or limited broadband connectivity to benefit from digital resources and learning networks
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• Link learners with the labour market and financial institutions
• Build capacity of organisations and individuals for sustainability
• Promotes the appropriate use of available and affordable technologies.
COL’s approach
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