Empowering girls and women is key to creating inclusive societies and reducing poverty. This is critically important in a fragile setting like Mozambique, where conflict, climate shocks, widespread gender-based violence, and high rates of child marriage and early pregnancies place an extreme burden on women and girls and, thus, on families. Known as "Maïngo," which means development in the Sango language, the national language, the project provides scholarships for girls to advance their education at least until the end of secondary school . After a year of implementation at Bambari Secondary School , the project is beginning to yield positive results. The indicator is explicitly referenced in the text of target 4.1: ‘ensure that all girls and boys complete […] primary and secondary education’. A completion rate at or near 100% indicates that all or most children and adolescents have completed a level of education by the time they are 3 to 5 years older than the official age of entry into the last grade of that level of education. A low completion rate indicates low or delayed entry into a given level of education, high drop-out ... The education and training that children receive in secondary school equip them with skills that are necessary to fully participate in society. Though the duration in each country vary, secondary education typically covers ages 12 to 17 and is divided into two levels: lower secondary education (spanning 3 to 4 years) and upper secondary education (spanning 2 to 3 years). However, in 2021, just two in three children of lower secondary school age attended either lower or upper secondary school ...
