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Take a Girl Child to Work Day is an annual corporate social investment event, held in South Africa since 2003. Companies involved organise for female learners (school pupils), usually from disadvantaged backgrounds, to spend the day at their place of work on the last Thursday of May.
For the child (account holder) Only a girl child can avail the benefits of Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana saving scheme. The maximum age of this child should be 10 years. However a grace period of 1 year is granted. For the parents- Only biological parents or legal guardians of a girl child can open the account on the child's behalf.
Child development accounts have been established in a number of other countries, [25] where they are primarily viewed as anti-poverty policy, [26] rather than investments in education. Canada, Singapore, and the United Kingdom have instituted national CSA policies, with eligibility criteria, matches, and allowable uses consistent with the ...
Women's education is one of the major explanatory variables behind the rates of social and economic development, [1] and has been shown to have a positive correlation with both. [2] [3] According to notable economist Lawrence Summers, "investment in the education of girls may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world."
As an approach, it is a direct descendant of the efficiency approach taken by WID which “rationalizes ‘investing’ in women and girls for more effective development outcomes.” [103] [104] As articulated in the section of WID, the efficiency approach to women in development was chiefly articulated by Caroline Moser in the late 1980s. [105]
Educate Girls is a nonprofit organization that promotes and supports girls' education in the remotest and rural and educationally backward part of India. [8] [9] It works in partnership with the Government of India and operates in 18,000 villages of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh and engages with a huge base of community volunteers and in the process helps to identify, enroll ...
Funding was first authorized under the CCDBG Act of 1990, which was enacted under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. [4]Since CCDBG’s inception, much has been learned about the role of early learning and development on the success of a child, and CCDBG has become an important tool not just for helping families work, but also for helping them ensure their children get a strong ...
Women & child development: Women Empowerment: To improve child sex ratio by helping girls development in education and health [47] [48] [49] ବରିଷ୍ଠ ବୁଣକର ସହାୟତା ଯୋଜନା Baristha Bunakara Sahayata Jojana: 7 August 2016: Handlooms, Textiles and Handicrafts Department: Provide pensions for elderly weavers ...