Secondary school means: Empowering girls and women is key to

Empowering girls and women is key to creating inclusive societies and reducing poverty. This is critically important in a fragile setting like Mozambique, where conflict, climate shocks, widespread gender-based violence, and high rates of child marriage and early pregnancies place an extreme burden on women and girls and, thus, on families. The indicator is explicitly referenced in the text of target 4.1: ‘ensure that all girls and boys complete […] primary and secondary education’. A completion rate at or near 100% indicates that all or most children and adolescents have completed a level of education by the time they are 3 to 5 years older than the official age of entry into the last grade of that level of education. A low completion rate indicates low or delayed entry into a given level of education, high drop-out ... The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP) monitoring of WASH in schools includes tracking ‘basic’ drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services in pre-primary, primary and secondary schools. JMP estimates for WASH in schools are based on the harmonized core indicators. For the purposes of SDG monitoring, a basic drinking water service means schools have access to an improved water source from which water is available, a basic sanitation ... With nearly 122 million girls out of school worldwide, many of them in fragile and conflict-affected contexts, investing in the education and human capital of girls and young women remains a priority for the World Bank and is central to the institution’s new Gender Strategy. International Day of the Girl Child, October 11, is an opportunity to reflect on the urgent need to ensure equitable education for all girls and boys, especially in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.