The Girls? Empowerment through Education and Health Activity (ASPIRE)

Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-612-14-000003 Opportunity Category: EarmarkFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: Other (see text field entitled "Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity" for clarification)CFDA Number: 98.001Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: USAIDClosing Date: Sep 03, 2014Award Ceiling: $10,400,000Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: Jun 19, 2014Funding Opportunity Description: The Girls’ Empowerment through Education and Health Activity (ASPIRE) will improve reading skills for girls in upper primary school so they have the foundation of reading to be able to succeed in secondary school. ASPIRE’s focus on reading is a continuation of what the Early Grade Reading Activity is already doing in lower primary school.
ASPIRE will focus on all primary and secondary schools in Balaka and Machinga districts which are two of USAID/Malawi’s focus districts under its Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS). Interventions will achieve the following outputs:
Output 1: Reading skills for girls in upper primary school improved;
Output 2: Adoption of positive sexual and health-care seeking behaviors, and social norms among youth ages 10-19 increased; and
Output 3: Key structural and cultural barriers for girls’ access to schooling decreased.

Implemented together, the three Out...

Source: Grants.gov - June 19, 2014 Category: Research Tags: Other (see text field entitled Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity for clarification) Source Type: funding