EfE, Ibis West Africa’s thematic programme on education, was launched in 2004. Through partnering with stakeholders in Ghana, this thematic programme focuses on children’s access to quality education and girls’ right to education. National policy and advocacy is supplemented with direct engagement with civil society partners and government structures at district level.

Development objective
The development objective of the Education for Empowerment programme is to:
Improve right to accessible, quality and empowering basic education in deprived areas of Ghana with special focus on girls’ education, education in emergency situation, accountability and governance of the education system at local and national level.

Specific Programme Objectives
The specific EfE programme objectives address each of these four areas namely; Access and participation; quality education; gender equity and accountability:

1. Increase access and participation for all children of school going age particularly those who are out of school in achieving basic education through the provision of child-centred and contextually relevant educational approaches.

2. Improve the quality of education through innovative teacher and teacher trainee support mechanisms, continuous systematic monitoring and support in curriculum issues.

3. Improve on the participation and quality learning outcomes for the girl child in schools through advocacy and sensitization programmes

4. Increase the performance, accountability and governance of the education system with support to civil society coalitions at local and national level.

Ibis works for a just world, in which all people have equal access to education, influence and resources.