The United Nations' Special Initiative for Africa (UNSIA) focuses on selected low- enrollment African countries in an effort to help them find pragmatic, sustainable solutions to the problems that have depressed primary school enrollments for so long. As part of this process, a four-country study was ...

The key objective of this research effort in four African countries, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, and Mauritania, was to understand and explain the practices that are favorable to success for girls, and the underlying circumstances. The research revealed that the problems and success of girls' schoolin...