Known as "Maïngo," which means development in the Sango language, the national language, the project provides scholarships for girls to advance their education at least until the end of secondary school . After a year of implementation at Bambari Secondary School , the project is beginning to yield positive results. The indicator is explicitly referenced in the text of target 4.1: ‘ensure that all girls and boys complete […] primary and secondary education’. A completion rate at or near 100% indicates that all or most children and adolescents have completed a level of education by the time they are 3 to 5 years older than the official age of entry into the last grade of that level of education. A low completion rate indicates low or delayed entry into a given level of education, high drop-out ... But this means that worldwide, nearly 1 in 5 girls are still not completing lower secondary and nearly 4 in 10 girls are not completing upper secondary school today. And in certain regions, the numbers are even more dismal. The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP) monitoring of WASH in schools includes tracking ‘basic’ drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services in pre-primary, primary and secondary schools. JMP estimates for WASH in schools are based on the harmonized core indicators. For the purposes of SDG monitoring, a basic drinking water service means schools have access to an improved water source from which water is available, a basic sanitation ...
