The Girls’ Education Challenge Programme (GEC), funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), was the largest global girls’ education initiative to date, spanning across multiple countries with the aim of improving educational opportunities for over 1.6 million marginalised girls around the world.
The final study in our evaluation of GEC focused on collating and sharing lessons from both Phase I and Phase II of the programme, and the two independent evaluation contracts that supported them – GEC Phase I Evaluation Manager and GEC Phase II Independent Evaluation. These lessons contributed to evidence and learning about education programmes based on the experience of the GEC.
In the Lessons learned study, our evaluation team assessed the evolution of the GEC’s approach to reaching marginalised girls and its methods of evaluation and learning over the programme’s lifespan.
For more information on the Lessons learned study, see these annexes.
This study brief provides an overview of key findings and recommendations on the approach to reaching the most marginalised girls, highlighting the changes over the 12 years of GEC and the trade-offs faced by the programme.
This study brief focuses on the lessons learned from evaluation and learning on the GEC, examining the change in the approaches over the lifecycle of the programme with contributions from the independent evaluation, fund manager and implementing partners.
Read more about our independent evaluation of the Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) Programme.