Researchers including Kathryn Watt, a Research Manager at the Asenze Project at South Africa's University of KwaZulu-Natal studied the relationship between interventions and the way people’s lives develop in adverse contexts.

In their paper, they compare the different effects of directing development assistance: improving girls’ school enrolment, prioritising schooling for both girls and boys, and addressing barriers to gender equality throughout life.

Their findings suggest that the current focus on girls’ schooling may both unintentionally disadvantage boys and be a relatively inefficient means of advancing gender equality.

Researchers including Kathryn Watt, a Research Manager at the Asenze Project at South Africa's University of KwaZulu-Natal studied the relationship between interventions and the way people’s lives develop in adverse contexts.
In their paper, they compare the different effects of directing development assistance: improving girls’ school enrolment, prioritising schooling for both girls and boys, and addressing barriers to gender equality throughout life.
Their findings suggest that the current focus on girls’ schooling may both unintentionally disadvantage boys and be a relatively inefficient means of advancing gender equality.

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