Afghanistan: Access to Health Services in Rural AreasMore than 10,000 community health workers—half of whom are women—have been trained and deployed. They have helped increase family planning and childhood vaccination. The number of couples using modern methods of family planning has increased from 47,000 to 115,000 in 11 provinces, in part thanks to supplies distributed by these workers.
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Bangladesh: Stipends Help Triple Girls' Access to SchoolThe Bangladesh Female Secondary School Assistance Program, financed by IDA, supported a government program to improve access to secondary education for girls by providing tuition stipends.
• Highlights of Results:
- Female enrollment, as a percentage of total enrollment, increased from 33 percent in 1991 to 48 percent in 1997 and about 56 percent in 2005
- Secondary School Certificate pass rates for girls in the project area increased from 39 percent in 2001 to 58 percent in 2006.
• Indirect benefits of the project included delays in the age of marriage and reduced fertility rates, better nutrition, and more females employed with higher incomes.
»» Read More India: Andhra Pradesh Rural Poverty Reduction Project• Nearly 8 million poor women in rural areas have been organized into 629,870 self-help groups and 28,282 village organizations. The project is expected to organize all rural poor households by 2008.
• The project facilitated small group organization and self management within rural communities, with a particular focus on women.
• Key to the management of risk was that poor women in self-help groups act as a guarantee both for each other and for banks.
»» Read More Pakistan: A Plan to Get Girls in SchoolAlthough more Pakistani girls are in school, a substantial gender gap in enrollment remains and worsens significantly as girls transition from primary to middle school. Although gender differentials in child immunization have declined, considerable gender differentials persist in other aspects of health care. The use of reproductive health services is low, and maternal mortality ratios remain high. The cumulative effects of this pattern are evident in the high sex ratio of 108 males per 100 females. In the labor market, lower educational attainment coupled with social norms that restrict mobility confine women to a limited range of employment opportunities and low wages.
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