Publication: Female School Participation in West Africa : Success Factors
Date
2000-08
ISSN
Published
2000-08
Author(s)
Maige-Toure, Aminata
Abstract
The United Nations' Special
Initiative for Africa (UNSIA) focuses on selected low-
enrollment African countries in an effort to help them find
pragmatic, sustainable solutions to the problems that have
depressed primary school enrollments for so long. As part of
this process, a four-country study was conducted between
November 1998 and May 1999 in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali,
and Mauritania. The study specially focused on identifying
and understanding the practices likely to promote female
school participation in a significant way. One of the
study's main assumptions is that the body of knowledge
on girls' education and the interest accorded to it in
the last ten years in Africa should already have resulted in
improved parents' and communities' attitudes,
school policies, and classroom management approaches. These
improvements should in turn lead to change in girls'
behavior and performance in school, and thus greater female
survival, confidence, achievement and retention. Moreover,
this particular study will help identify ways of improving
what we do to advance girls' schooling.
Citation
“Maige-Toure, Aminata. 2000. Female School Participation in West Africa : Success Factors. Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs; No. 164. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/5424e001-ec70-5729-9ece-e52e2cf0a33a License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”