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Angola launches 250 million dollars program to support female education

The President appealed this Friday to the fight against early pregnancy, the main cause of school dropout in the country, in the launch of a female empowerment project, budgeted at 250 million dollars financed by the World Bank.

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João Lourenço, who was speaking at the presentation of the Girl Empowerment and Learning for All Project (PAT-2), with a duration of five years, highlighted the support of this financial institution for the education sector.

"PAT-2 will implement concrete actions that will result in their empowerment [girls]. The reason for this particular focus on girls and adolescents is justified, insofar as factors linked to gender, especially in rural areas, negatively affect the access and permanence in school and the school promotion of young girls", he said.

According to the head of state, one of the main causes of school dropout by girls and adolescents, especially in rural areas, is early pregnancy, which worries the authorities and society in general and against which everyone must fight, "through promotion of sexual education and reproductive health, of potential victims of such behavior and other measures in the communities where they live".

The head of state underlined that this project aims to contribute to the sustainable improvement of the quality of education and education in Angola, being a timely response in the particular context of the covid-19 pandemic, to strengthen the resilience of the education system, which, as in the vast majority of countries in the world, it had to reinvent itself, finding innovative solutions to guarantee the continuity of education.

"Doing justice to the set of objectives and measures of goals recommended, the Project for Empowerment of Girls and Learning for All will contribute to the promotion of access and school success, providing schools with adequate teaching means and resources, in-service training offer for teachers and school administrators", he stressed.

Regarding the partnership with the World Bank, started in 2013, with the Learning for All Project, now reinforced with this new project focused on girls, João Lourenço said that Angola values ​​cooperation with the world financial institution "and considers the project to be of particular importance PAT-2".

"For the significant gains that will result from this cooperation, I am sure that this partnership is advantageous for our country, so I take the opportunity to thank the World Bank for the support and confidence shown", he added.

The President also referred that quality education and universal access are the Government's compass, because it is "unquestionable that Angola's development depends on the quality of its human capital in the most varied fields of knowledge".

"It is a project of great importance for the objectives it proposes to achieve, however, demanding due to the complexity and multiplicity of actions and actors that will act in its different components", said João Lourenço, urging "the teamwork of the ministerial departments of Education, Health, Social Action, Family and Women Promotion, Energy and Water, Youth and Sports, Finance, provincial governments and municipal administrations".

In her speech, the Minister of Education, Luísa Grilo, said that PAT-2 will benefit more than six million students, guaranteeing its multifaceted action, in a project formulated in three components, namely the empowerment of girls, the reduction of poverty learning and project management, monitoring and evaluation.

The first component aims to provide sexual and reproductive health information and services to 300,000 young people between the ages of 12 and 17, of which 180,000 are girls, in order to ensure a decrease in school-age pregnancy, prevent gender-based violence, encourage permanence and / or the return to school through the granting and scholarships for the most vulnerable, also providing for the provision of education and means that meet the management of intimate hygiene, ensuring water supply and functional bathrooms.

In turn, the World Bank's regional director for Africa, Jean-Christophe Carret, said that expanding the education of girls is the best political instrument to achieve Angola's commitment to end child marriage enshrined in both the African Charter of Rights and Welfare of the Child, as well as the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.

"In addition to being a human rights issue, it is also especially important, as Angola now occupies a very high position in terms of teenage pregnancy," he stressed.

The World Bank's regional director for Africa advocated the need to work equally with boys to ensure that they have decision-making skills and access to sexual and reproductive health services that allow them to lead responsible lives.

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