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January & 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 […]
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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 […]
Read MoreOctober 2024
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, […]
Read MoreDecember 2023
Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / December 19, 2023
As we wind up the year with shorter days here in the Northern Hemisphere and wars occurring in pockets of the world, we are reminded of the urgency of working towards greater freedom, justice, and peace for all. We are also revisiting some of the trends of 2023 in search of bright spots. Inspired by […]
Read MoreOctober 2023
Aparajitha Suresh / The Puggle / November 20, 2023
In celebration of the first-ever International Day of Care and Support, our October Puggle focuses on why care matters for girls’ education work. We also celebrate Claudia Goldin’s landmark Nobel Economics Prize award — she is only the third woman to receive this award and the very first not to share it with male colleagues. […]
Read MoreSeptember 2023
Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / October 19, 2023
Our last post showed how many milestones we have to celebrate when it comes to girls’ education outcomes and highlighted the areas where we need to focus our work going forward. This month we confirm the progress that has been made, validating decades of work by girls’ education champions. However, as we discussed last month […]
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