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August 2026
Dennis Nyakundi / The Puggle / August 21, 2026
When girls fill the care gaps, equity slips away Co-Authored By: Dennis Nyakundi and Lydia Wilbard Two girls from recent field visits come to mind. One in India and one in Kenya. We will not name them, and we cannot show you their faces. But we can tell you what we saw. The first is […]
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Meera Pathmarajah / The Puggle / July 15, 2026
A Toolkit for Gender Diagnostics Co-Authored By: Meera Pathmarajah and Lydia Wilbard When leaders commit to thoughtfully integrating gender into their work, they tend to ask similar questions about the process. Who should spearhead the effort? What scope of work should we outline for a gender consultant? Should we consider engaging external expertise? In 2025, […]
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Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / December 15, 2025
Seeds planted, fruits harvested We’ve been quiet in 2025, but that’s not because we’ve been complacent. Far from it! As the year winds down, we have been reflecting on 2025 through the lens of a harvest. For many folks in our sector, this year felt less like a harvest, and more like a season of […]
Read MoreJanuary & February 2025
Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / March 11, 2025
It’s been an eventful couple of months in the development space, with many governments and organizations reeling from American, Swiss, Dutch, and UK aid cuts. The effects are already devastating, including the lost opportunities for education. This crisis has the potential to kickstart an end to aid dependency. In the United States, the National Assessment […]
Read MoreDecember 2024
Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / December 19, 2024
A Wrap-Up on Standout Resources It’s that time of year again! Today we look back at what happened from across the year in the field of girls’ education. We may have been quieter this year on the blog, but that’s not because we weren’t listening to what was happening. Below we share some (of the […]
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Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / November 18, 2024
You may have noticed that we’ve been rather quiet on our blog lately. That’s because we’ve been busy putting the final touches on an expanded strategy for Echidna Giving and growing our team to deliver against that strategy. We’re thrilled to formally share our expanded strategy here, which is also reflected in updates on our […]
Read MoreMay 2024
Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / June 28, 2024
In 2021, Edward Paice published Youth Quake: Why African Demography Matters. He outlines how Africa’s population growth means that “by mid-century about one-third of the world’s working-age population will be African” and argues that “the consequences of youth endeavors to change politics will be of global importance.” (A NYTimes article last October also highlighted these […]
Read MoreApril 2024
Aparajitha Suresh / The Puggle / May 21, 2024
April relentlessly reminded us that we live in an era of intensifying polycrisis: pandemic(s), war(s), climate disaster(s), increasing displacement, and rising food insecurity… Even the adults are worried. How, then, must children feel, growing up more aware than ever of the instability characterizing this world that is ultimately theirs to inherit? There is growing consensus […]
Read MoreMarch 2024
Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / March 28, 2024
In March, we celebrate International Women’s Day. Alongside the celebration come lots of reflections on how well the world is progressing towards gender equality. As we read the various data — like these five charts on gender (in)equality around the world from the World Bank — the first thing that stood out to us is […]
Read MoreFebruary 2024
Aparajitha Suresh / The Puggle / March 15, 2024
2024 may be a Leap Year, but the recent G7 Girls’ Education Global Objectives update finds that we are not leaping forward on girls’ education. More, not fewer, girls are out of school — in part because of the Taliban’s devastating decision to ban girls from secondary school in Afghanistan, but even without this setback, […]
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