School Management Shuras – A Bridge between Girls’ Education and the Communities?

The present study’s first aim was to review the relevance and impact of the strategic choice made by the GIZ Basic Education Programme in Afghanistan (BEPA)’s to use community mobilisation as a conduit for the promotion of girls’ secondary education. Its second aim was to evaluate the quality of implementation and sustainability of the programme; and finally, it will provide the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) with practical recommendations for the improvement and potential extension of the programme.