Ministry, UNFPA to increase investment in adolescent girls’ education
The Ministry of Education and Sports and the United Nations Population Fund have agreed to strengthen their partnership by continuing to build on their campaign titled Noi. The Ministry signed off on the Implementing Partner Agreement and 2017 Annual Work Plan with the UNFPA on March 28, inked by the Minister of Education and Sports, Ms Sengdeuane Lachanthaboun and UNFPA representative, Ms Frederika Meijer. The Noi campaign was launched last year on International Day of the Girl Child (October 11) and acknowledges the grim reality of adolescent girls informed by the country’s 2015 Population and Housing Census, which shows that 42,000 adolescent girls have never attended school and 91,662 girls aged 6-16 have dropped out of school.
