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Stop the Setback: Addressing the Girlsโ Education Financing Gap After COVID-19 Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Malala Fund Decades of research show that investing in girlsโ education is one of the best investments we can make in the future peace, prosperity and sustainability of our planet. By taking the steps for girlsโ education outlined in this report, leaders can build a better world in the pandemicโs wake โ not just for girls, but for everyone. 
Raise Your Voice With Malala: A Guide to Taking Action for Girlsโ Education Year of publication: 2018 Author: Emily Laurie | Eleanor Gall Corporate author: Malala Fund This guide gives young activists the tools to raise their voices and make change happen. Girls around the world are standing up in support of their out-of-school sisters and fighting to see every girl complete 12 years of free, safe, quality education. By taking action in their communities, girls can contribute to the peace and prosperity of our entire world. The guide includes real stories about girls around the world working to make sure all girls have the opportunity to go to school. 
Girls' Education and COVID-19: What Past Shocks Can Teach Us About Mitigating the Impact of Pandemics Year of publication: 2020 Author: Lucia Fry | Philippa Lei Corporate author: Malala Fund Almost 90% of the worldโs countries have shut their schools in efforts to slow the transmission of COVID-19. Alongside school closures, governments are also imposing social distancing measures and restricting the movement of people, goods, and services, leading to stalled economies. While this disruption to education and the expected reduction in global growth have far-reaching effects for all, their impact will be particularly detrimental to the most disadvantaged students and their families, especially in poorer countries. The educational consequences of COVID-19 will last beyond the period of school closures, disproportionately affecting marginalized girls.This paper uses insights from previous health and financial shocks to understand how the current global pandemic could affect girlsโ education outcomes for years to come. It details how governments and international institutions can mitigate the immediate and longer-term effects of the pandemic on the most marginalized girls. The paper considers the 2014- 15 Ebola epidemic and the 2008 global financial crisis, which both have some parallels to the impact of COVID-19. 
A Greener, Fairer Future: Why Leaders Need to Invest in Climate and Girlsโ Education Year of publication: 2021 Author: Lucia Fry | Philippa Lei Corporate author: Malala Fund This report estimates that in 2021 climate-related events will prevent at least four million girls in low- and lower-middle-income countries from completing their education. If current trends continue, by 2025 climate change will be a contributing factor in preventing at least 12.5 million girls from completing their education each year. Yet evidence shows that closing gender gaps in education can help countries better adapt to the effects of climate change and decrease the rate and impact of global warming. This report recommends how leaders can take urgent climate action at meetings this year, like COP26. It includes reducing carbon emissions, improving girlsโ access to education, helping communities adapt to the realities of climate change and transforming education systems to provide all students with the knowledge, skills and values needed to challenge the social and economic inequalities fuelling the climate crisis. 
Building Back Equal: Girls Back to School Guide Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO | United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | Plan International | United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) | Malala Fund The guide provides targeted inputs to ensure continuity of learning during school closures, and comprehensive, timely and evidence-based plans for reopening schools in a way that is safe, gender-responsive and child-friendly, and meets the needs of the most marginalised girls. This guide emphasizes an approach to โbuild back equalโ through gender-responsive measures that transform education systems, prioritise resilience and address the key bottlenecks and barriers to girlsโ education, including: Gender-responsive data and evidence to inform action, including data disaggregated by sex and gender-responsive monitoring to identify promising practices to promote gender equality. Policies, laws and plans to advance girlsโ rights, including the removal of discriminatory practices that impede girlsโ educational participation and completion, and ability to apply their learning. Sustained financing to achieve results, protecting education financing for girlsโ education, alongside health, social protection and economy recovery initiatives with an equity lens.