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Goal is an award-winning development programme which uses sport and life skills education to transform the lives of adolescent girls. Created by Standard Chartered, it is primarily designed for girls ages 12-18 who are living in underserved communities. Goal is typically offered on a weekly basis, over the course of ten months. The programme is divided into four modules focused on one of four key life skills: communication, health and hygiene, rights and financial literacy.

Goal’s curriculum was designed by Standard Chartered in collaboration with the Population Council. The programme is successfully running in five countries The curriculum is available free of charge, under a Creative Commons license through Women Win. The curriculum is understood as a guideline and should be adapted to suit local context and need.

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More than 600 million adolescent girls live in the developing world. Many of them lack the opportunities and skills necessary to reach their full potential.

Standard Chartered created the Goal programme to address this issue. Goal uses sports training and life skills education to empower adolescent girls. Implemented by organizations around the world, the programme teaches girls the critical facts about health, communication, rights and managing their personal finances in order to help them transform not just their own lives, but those of their families, friends.

Goal was launched in 2006 in Delhi, India and reached 70 girls. Women Win has partnered with Standard Chartered to bring Goal to scale and increase sport and empowerment opportunities for girls around the world. In 2011, Goal was implemented in five countries – China, India, Jordan, Nigeria and , Zambia– and reached over 18,500 girls. Through community investment and collaboration, we are on track to achieve our target of delivering Goal to 100,000 girls by 2013.

Goal works in urban communities, offering weekly sessions to adolescent girls who may or may not attend school and are subsisting on a low family income. Typically, girls will meet weekly for two hours, over a ten month period. They’ll spend their time playing sport and participating in activities focused on learning a life skill. Girls who complete the programme and display exceptional leadership qualities are invited to become Goal Champions.

Awards and Recognition 

  • 2010 Global Sports Forum Trophy
  • 2009 Beyond Sport Awards
  • Featured case study in Because I Am a Girl report on economic empowerment by Plan International
  • Winner of 2008 Investing in Women Award for Vision by International centre for Research on Women.
  • Featured as case study on Shared Goals Through Sports by International Business Leaders Forum
  • Featured in the McKinsey Business Quarterly in 2008.
  • Featured in print and electronic media:
    • Femina feature, 2007
    • The Economist, 2008
    • Financial Express, 2008
    • The Outlook Business – Photo Essay in Independence special, 2010
    • The Alternative magazine, 2010
       

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Goal is about empowerment – and this curriculum gives you the power to start with the foundations of a world-class programme, as well as the flexibility and agency to customize the activities as you see fit.

The activities in here are meant as guidelines or suggestions; however, the experts who designed this programme recommend spending at least six weeks completing activities from each of our core focus areas:

  • 1. Be Yourself These activities cover communication, building self-confidence and valuing what it means to ‘be a girl’.
  • 2. Be Healthy These activities cover general health, reproductive health, and hygiene.
  • 3. Be Empowered These activities cover rights, freedom from violence, and an understanding of how to access resources and institutions in the community.
  • 4. Be Money Savvy These activities cover topics around money: saving it, spending it, making it, storing it and borrowing it.
 

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Core to the Goal strategy is the use of sport in conjunction with the life skill activities. Throughout the world, it’s becoming understood that sport can accelerate development and empowerment activities, because:

• There are inherent qualities in sport that translate to success in life, such as body awareness, team orientation, communication and resiliency
• It gathers a motivated and captive audience
• It gives girls a platform to practice leadership
• It challenges social and cultural norms and gender stereotypes at family, community and societal levels
• It brings people together regardless of class, race, gender, and nationality
• It provide a platform to share information and educate girls, women and their communities about women's rights
 

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The Goal Activity Guide addresses issues facing adolescent girls all over the world. At the same time, it is flexible enough to adapt to local needs and issues.

The people and organizations that deliver Goal should be involved in the customization of their own version of the activity guide. Implementing organizations are strongly encouraged to make the activity guide their own and choose the pieces that are most relevant to their particular communities. They are also welcome to adapt activities and lessons to suit the girls in their programme. 

To maintain the integrity of the programme, it is requested that the basic areas of knowledge from each of the four core sections of the activity guide are covered over the course of Phase 1.
 

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Meet Rohida Pathan

Meet Rohida Pathan
Rohida Pathan, a 21 year old Goal participant is doing her traineeship as a computer teacher at the Goal site of Abhinav Gyan Mandir, Mankhurd.
Rohida has been living at the Goal site of Asha Sadan, a home for girls and women in distress, for the last 6 years. When Goal was launched at Asha Sadan in 2009, Rohida lacked confidence and was not too enthusiastic, but gradually became motivated when she saw the girls enjoying netball and listening to them talk about the life skill sessions.
Rohida graduated from the Goal programme in 2010. In 2011 she underwent the skills assessment conducted by Standard Chartered Bank which gave her feedback that she needed to work on her English speaking and writing skills. Rohida worked...Read full story
Oct 02, 2012

Meet latest Goal champion, Raoyao Li

Meet latest Goal champion, Raoyao Li

Raoyao Li, 16, is in her second year at the Yuzhong Vocational Training School, specializing in nursing. She excelled amongst her peers to become one

Oct 01, 2012

The fun way to learn about saving money

The fun way to learn about saving money

Our programme in Zambia is already proving popular! In less than a year, we have over 1,000 Goal girls from 40 different schools keen to learn life skills

Aug 14, 2012

Aya's story

Aya's story

Aya Agha, 15, is a student in Al Itifaq School in Amman, Jordan. Smart yet timid by nature, Aya struggled to express herself freely or