https://www.oasissahel.ca/blog daily 0.75 2021-10-28 https://www.oasissahel.ca/blog/a-fulcrum-for-the-future-girls-education-and-voluntary-family-planning-the-best-investments-for-development-and-security-in-the-sahel monthly 0.5 2022-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6036b12b187cf049fee50c65/1635395304205-9E4VPQMS5LC2F9RUFY8J/oasis-brief-final-digital-rev3-031921%2B%281%29.jpg Blog - A Fulcrum for the Future - Girls’ Education and Voluntary Family Planning: The Best Investments for Development and Security in the Sahel - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.oasissahel.ca/blog/avert-catastrophe-now-in-africas-sahel-co-authored-by-oasis-team-in-nature monthly 0.5 2022-06-25 https://www.oasissahel.ca/blog/understanding-and-ending-child-marriage-insights-from-hausa-communities-daniel-perlman-et-al-world-bank monthly 0.5 2022-06-25 https://www.oasissahel.ca/blog/pathways-to-choice-delaying-age-of-marriage-through-girls-education-in-northern-nigeria-daniel-perlman-et-al monthly 0.5 2022-06-25 https://www.oasissahel.ca/blog/tag/Girls%27+Education monthly 0.5 https://www.oasissahel.ca/blog/tag/Women%27s+Empowerment monthly 0.5 https://www.oasissahel.ca/blog/tag/Security monthly 0.5 https://www.oasissahel.ca/blog/tag/Family+Planning monthly 0.5 https://www.oasissahel.ca/home daily 1.0 2025-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6036b12b187cf049fee50c65/1634607237743-VMQY5BWJVSOO52LEH5SS/Filipovic_Niger_FP%2B%25281%2529.jpg Home - Why Family Planning? Voluntary, rights-based family planning is fundamental to women's empowerment and health. Beyond the health benefits of contraception — preventing unintended pregnancies, averting unsafe abortions and reducing maternal death — family planning offers a plethora of economic benefits to families, communities and countries. Every dollar invested in wider access to contraceptives yields $120 of annual social, economic, and environmental benefits — the highest return on investment of any social investment, second only to universal trade. Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, former Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund, called it “the most important intervention for human development in the world.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6036b12b187cf049fee50c65/1634607467615-ZDJI6VYV2LZHGUJWVKSU/Photo%2B2_CGE%2BSWEDD%2Bvide%2Bconference%2Bppt.png Home - Why Education? The Sahel region has some of the highest rates of child marriage in the world, and girls typically drop out of school when they get married. Staying in school longer enables girls to have more self-determination and is a key factor in delaying marriage and lowering fertility rates. Women who stay in school marry later, earn more, and have smaller, healthier families. They also are the hub of more resilient communities and stronger economies. Every 1% increase in girls’ secondary school completion rates in the Sahel leads to a 0.3% increase in national Gross National Income. If all girls in the Sahel could complete secondary school by 2030, GDP would rise an additional 10% on average, with even bigger cumulative economic returns after that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6036b12b187cf049fee50c65/1634606279356-Y9VLE5D67MG1PGJMJ9GO/satellite_Sahel_Photo.jpg Home - Why the Sahel? The Sahel is a geographical region of Africa that lies between the Sahara Desert to the north and the Sudanian Savanna to the south. The population of the francophone Sahel countries and northern Nigeria will grow by more than two and a half times by the middle of the century, to 450 million people. At the same time, climate change will have serious negative effects on people's ability to grow staple crops - risking the food security of the region. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6036b12b187cf049fee50c65/1634606418736-AQIY059CB6UPRJNF25HA/2020-03-14+Mentors+and+HM+team+celebrate+Intl+Womens+Day+%283%29.jpg Home - Why Women and Girls? Women in the Sahel are among the least empowered in the world. Many don’t have a say in their own basic life choices, such as staying in school, seeking healthcare, when and whom to marry or whether to work outside the home. The region’s low median marriage age, high birthrates among adolescent mothers, rapid population growth, and low educational attainment are deeply intertwined with its social and environmental problems and unrest. By the same token, empowering women and girls by raising educational attainment, delaying marriage, and improving family planning access can dramatically improve outcomes in the Sahel and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6036b12b187cf049fee50c65/1634607552536-ZUC024HWBMSATFLU0901/G4H%252BGirls%252Bentering%252Bschool.jpg Home - Leveraging Better Outcomes Improving access to family planning and quality education are strategic, mutually reinforcing interventions that enhance self-determination for women and girls. Together they have the highest cost-benefit ratio of any other social investment, and offer maximal leverage for positive outcomes in the Sahel region and beyond. Educated, empowered women tend to choose smaller families, slowing population growth in a rights-based context and generating a “demographic dividend” that can put the Sahel on the path away from poverty, scarcity, unrest and migration, and toward the Sustainable Development Goals. Gains in education and family planning lead to gains in other sectors, making Sahel communities healthier, more resilient, more prosperous, and ultimately more stable and secure. https://www.oasissahel.ca/our-vision daily 0.75 2021-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdb0b54755be25d5d92bfb3/1559252583038-QURCP604WRJD3H6G5GO8/justice-rising-ECHO-AND-EARL-23.jpg Our Vision - Educators are innovators. Use this page to describe your company's mission and goals. Nullam tempor dolor sed nulla auctor, nec placerat felis sodales. Etiam et turpis mattis, efficitur mi ut, ultrices diam. Donec consectetur, odio eget porta varius, orci mauris viverra ante, eget egestas turpis sapien vel orci. 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Safe spaces are comprised of a mentor and no more than eighteen adolescent girls, who meet for two hours each week, spending one hour on literacy and numeracy and one hour on life skills, such as reproductive health and negotiation. The program aims to: Enhance rural girls' aspirations, voices, and sense of personal agency Quadruple rural girls' secondary school completion rates Increase the average age of marriage in the communities where we work by at least 2 years The design of the program was informed by deep ethnographic research OASIS conducted in the communities where we work, and the experience of our partner in northern Nigeria, the Centre for Girls Education, which pioneered the safe space methodology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6036b12b187cf049fee50c65/1634611414324-V9YVEMRGEX7W3WL1JXHI/Team+4.JPG Safe Spaces for Girls - Scaling up safe spaces in Nigeria The Centre for Girls Education (CGE), with programmatic and financial support from OASIS, is a pioneer in the adaptation of the safe space methodology to meet adolescent girls’ need for basic literacy and numeracy skills, vocational training, and crucial life skills not usually offered at home or in school. 50,000 girls across seven states in northern Nigeria now take part in safe space clubs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6036b12b187cf049fee50c65/1634612019760-DAP3UTCLY5CF0M5JBLBX/IMG_0408.jpg Safe Spaces for Girls - Expanding safe spaces to Niger Hilin Mu (“Our Space” in Hausa) was launched in Maradi, Niger in 2019. The Hilin Mu team, with programmatic and financial support from OASIS, established a local organization to run the program in 2020, called Lumière des Filles et des Femmes (LFF, Light of Girls & Women). We provide safe space clubs to girls at risk for early marriage as well as mobilize families and influencers to change norms around girls education and early marriage. Hilin Mu safe spaces focus on the transition from primary to junior secondary school as it is a critical time for school withdrawal and early marriage. Hilin Mu recruits girls in the last year of a primary school and organize safe spaces for them over the next two years. 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