ACRE will enhance equitable access to quality education by promoting vulnerable and marginalized children’s right to education, with emphasis on the girl child. The project will work in 120 primary schools. It will aim to reduce gender-based violence and other forms of child rights abuses in primary schools by 25 percent, improve the capacity of communities to participate effectively in school management, and advocate for policies focused on gender in education.

The project aims to improve access to basic education for vulnerable children in the project area and enable girls to complete primary school and take greater control over their lives. ACRE will provide girls with the opportunity to improve their literacy and numeracy abilities and complete basic education. The project will empower girls to take greater control over their lives and be able to make decisions that impact their lives and those around them. Local communities will be empowered to plan and manage their own resources in this case education and to hold local government institutions accountable. It will also improve governance of schools as a result of community involvement, which will in turn position those schools to apply for funds from institutions such as the World Bank that insist on visible evidence of school improvement planning. The project activities will build trust between key community actors, creating more sustainable relationships and structures around education