Echidna Global Scholars Series

Prerna School in India

COVID-19 in India: Education disrupted and lessons learned

Thursday, May 14, 2020

A child watches a train passing through the Kibera slum of Kenya's capital Nairobi February 26, 2015.REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi (KENYA - Tags: SOCIETY TRANSPORT)

How school closures during COVID-19 further marginalize vulnerable children in Kenya

Damaris Seleina Parsitau and Evelyn Jepkemei

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

A female Jordanian superhero

Recognizing women’s important role in Jordan’s COVID-19 response

Mayyada Abu Jaber

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Children watch a movie on a computer at a shelter in the town of Comala, in the Mexican state of Colima, October 24, 2015. Hurricane Patricia caused less damage than feared on Mexico's Pacific coast on Saturday, but hammered an isolated part of the shoreline dotted with luxury villas and fishing villages, where the storm and its 165 mph (266 kph) winds landed. Thousands of residents and tourists fled the advance of the storm, one of the strongest in recorded history, seeking refuge in hastily arranged shelters. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo

Mexico’s COVID-19 distance education program compels a re-think of the country’s future of education

María Cristina Osorio Vázquez

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

A woman covers her nose and mouth with ? scarf, as she along with others waits to receive cash from a country-wide Ehsaas Emergency Cash program, introduced by the government for vulnerable families due to the ongoing spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Karachi, Pakistan April 11, 2020. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

A gender-sensitive response is missing from the COVID-19 crisis

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Barriers to STEM education for rural girls

Nasrin Siddiqa and Amanda Braga

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

India’s policy on early childhood education

Samyukta Subramanian

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Girls’ transitions to work through higher-quality TVET programs in Nepal

Girls’ transitions to work through higher-quality TVET programs in Nepal

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Children draw at an "anganwadi" (creche) centre under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme in Kutnabari village, about 45 km (28 miles) north of Agartala, capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura, August 9, 2008. The scheme aims to improve the nutritional and health status of children up to 6 years of age, pregnant women and nursing mothers from rural and tribal areas. The ICDS provides services like health check-up, immunization, pre-school education, supplementary nutrition amongst others. REUTERS/Jayanta Dey (JNDIA) - GM1E4891T1E01

To ensure a gender-transformative approach in the early years, India must engage parents and teachers

Samyukta Subramanian

Monday, October 14, 2019

Yasmin, a Rohingya girl who was expelled from Leda High School for being a Rohingya, helps her younger sister to study in Leda camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh, March 5, 2019. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain - RC14D96237D0

Beyond labs and numbers: STEM’s role in girls’ skills development in Bangladesh

Friday, October 11, 2019

Gaelle Dule Asheri, 17, a soccer player, who is amongst the first wave of girls being trained by professional coaches at the Rails Foot Academy, attends a course at a bilingual high school as she prepares for her final baccalaureate exams in Yaounde, Cameroon, May 2, 2019. Asheri never gave up her dream despite strong opposition from her mother who feared she would lose her daughter to a "men's game". "I used to train with boys, so with boys there were some exercises I was not allowed to do because I am a girl," she said. When she first started playing soccer in the dirt streets near her home, she was the only girl on the informal neighbourhood teams. "I picked up the ball, I kicked it and I never looked back," Asheri said, recalling the childhood street soccer games with her male cousins and neighbours. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra SEARCH "CAMEROON GIRLS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC1B9C9DB020

Echidna Global Scholars: Learning across a girl’s lifetime

Fred Dews and Christina Kwauk

Friday, October 11, 2019

A woman makes traditional sweets called Lakhamari inside a sweet factory before selling it to the market for the Tihar festival, also called Diwali, in Kathmandu, Nepal November 5, 2018. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar - RC161A1F1490

Investing in TVET would increase female labor force participation in Nepal

Thursday, October 10, 2019

Girls' education research and policy symposium

8:30 AM - 6:00 PM EDT

Schoolgirls eat their free mid-day meal, distributed by a government-run primary school, in New Delhi July 5, 2013. In an incident on July 16, 2013, twenty-five Indian children from a school in Mashrakh village in the district of Chapra died and dozens needed hospital treatment after apparently being poisoned by a school meal, provided under the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, sparking violent protests and angry allegations of blame. Neither the children nor the school pictured in this photograph were involved in Tuesday's poisoning incident. ATTENTION EDITORS - Neither the children nor the school pictured in this photograph were involved in Tuesday's poisoning incident. Picture taken July 5, 2013. REUTERS/Mansi Thapliyal (INDIA - Tags: FOOD EDUCATION SOCIETY) - GM1E97I0U8R01

As India extends preschool education to all, incorporate gender sensitivity from the start

Samyukta Subramanian

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Workers sort clothes at a garment factory near the collapsed Rana Plaza building in Savar June 16, 2013. The April 24 collapse of the Rana Plaza complex, built on swampy ground outside Dhaka with several illegal floors, killed 1,132 workers and focused international attention on sometimes lax safety standards in Bangladesh's booming garment industry. At least five different Bangladesh agencies have dispatched teams to start inspecting the country's thousands of garment factories, but there has been little coordination between them. More than four million people, mostly women, work in Bangladesh's clothing sector, which is the country's largest employment generator, with annual exports worth $21 billion. Picture taken June 16, 2013. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj (BANGLADESH - Tags: DISASTER BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT TEXTILE) - GM1E97T1MVQ01

Why we need to enhance STEM education for rural girls in Bangladesh

Monday, July 1, 2019