ASEAN Girls Education and Skills Programm Funded by £30 million of UK support

At the 2023 Education World Forum on May 9 in London (U.K.), the International Development Minister launched a Girls’ Education and Skills Programme following the UK-ASEAN Plan of Action.

The 5-year programme is the first in a series of new ASEAN-UK programmes designed to deliver on UK commitments as a dialogue partner and is further evidence of the UK’s renewed effort to prioritise educating girls as set out in the Women and Girls Strategy.

UK Minister for Development Andrew Mitchell (Photo: Gov.uk/twitter).

According to UK Minister for Development Andrew Mitchell, the programm will focus on 4 main areas, such as foundation learning, out-of-school girls and children with disability, gender barriers to digital skills and employment, enabling work on educating technology

The programme will also expand women and girls’ access to digital and technical education – focusing on what skills are needed to gain employment in high-skill sectors such as technology and manufacturing.

It will promote the inclusion of remote and minority communities, urban poor and children with disabilities by setting up disability assessments to identify additional needs and medical referrals for eye tests.

The new UK funding of £30 million, said Andrew Mitchell, will address these barriers to education for the 1.2 million girls threatened with permanent school drop-out through cost-effective measures such as merit-based scholarships, girls clubs and catch up classes to ensure children stay in school.

The funding is part of the UK’s effort to improve effectiveness of education and follows the recently announced Scaling Access and Learning in Education programme to help get an additional 6 million girls around the world into school.

The Education World Forum (EWF) conference in London is the largest international gathering of education ministers (Photo: Gov.uk/twitter).

At the Forum, the UK also launched a new report with the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel and World Bank on ‘Cost Effective Approaches to Improve Global Learning’, which builds on the importance of early childhood education and provides recommendations covering health, nutrition and socio-emotional development.

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