A year ago, global lockdowns and school closures put 1.6 billion children out of school. Since then, a year of shutdowns, distance learning, and economic hardship has created exceptional challenges for getting all children, and especially girls, back on track. Today’s discussion focuses on the challenges girls faced during the first year of the pandemic, and features Susannah Hares, senior policy fellow and co-director of the Center for Global Development's global education program, as well as Temitope Ifegbesan, a Teach For Nigeria alumna and cofounder of the EmpowerHer Initiative.

Resources:

• Introducing the Girl's Education Policy Index | Center For Global Development
  
• COVID-19 and Girls' Education: What We Know So Far and What We Expect
  
• COVID-19 School Closures Put Girls at Unique Risk of Violence, Dropout, Survey of Education Organizations Finds
  
• What Do Past Shocks Tell Us About the Choices We’ll Face After the Pandemic? A Series on Education Finance Post-COVID
  
• Facebook: The EmpowerHer Initiative 
  
• Instagram: EmpowerHer Initiative (@empowerher_ng)