EGG works towards improving girls’ enrollment, retention and academic performance in government schools by leveraging existing community and government resources. The key to our success is ownership.

Schools, which are run bureaucratically by commands from centralized authorities, fail because no one owns them: not the teachers, nor parents and communities, certainly not the children, nor even the bureaucrats. Without ownership—the sense of authority that gives people stakes in institutions—there is little commitment and little engagement.

EGG’s program success is based on the empowerment of all to work together to improve the schools. Through EGG’s work, schools in Rajasthan have higher attendance, improved infrastructure, more female teachers and increased access to government resources. EGG’s project in three blocks of Pali district contributed to 99% girls’ enrollment, higher attendance and improved academic performance in the 500 schools.