Girls Rights to Education for Actual Transformation- GREAT

Girls Rights to Education for Actual Transformation (GREAT) Project seeks to secure access to Quality Education (SDG4) for girls on high school level in the Northern Region. Specifically, the project seeks to pursue the following objectives:

1. ENGAGEMENT: Strengthened local community structures for civil society action (REEP girls’ clubs, school mothers, patrons, REEP ambassadors and community WATCH committees). 
2. EMPOWERMENT: Enhanced self-advocacy among REEP girls (through Life Skills) to engage peers and stakeholders for improved quality education among rural girls in 3 operational districts (Kumbungu District, Tolon District and Savelugu Municipal) in Northern Region, Ghana.
3. NETWORKING FOR ADVOCACY: Local civil society structures are strengthened and a sustainable partnership between REEP-Ghana, YOPP and YOTA (CSO actors), the local Ghana Education Service unit and the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (state actors) have been built to stand together for girl child education. A stronger network with these two CSOs, representing the local and the national level, will assist REEP in successfully pursuing joint advocacy agendas).   

The intervention is taking place across three (3) districts in the northern region of Ghana where girls’ education is going through a roller coaster of challenges. The challenges range between the attitude of the people, an economically difficult context, and that of the politicization of educational policies.