zohrehKazemianpour/girls-education-analysis

Analysing the messaging gap between why families say girls drop out of school vs. what NGOs communicate — Sierra Leone # Girls' Education — Messaging Gap Analysis > 📓 **View the rendered notebook on nbviewer** This project looks at why girls drop out of secondary school in sub-Saharan Africa, and whether NGO communications actually address the reasons families give. The central question: **is there a gap between what families say causes dropout and what NGOs talk about?** ## What's in the notebook 1. **Enrolment trends** — World Bank data on girls' secondary enrolment across Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ethiopia and Mali (2000–2022) 2. **NGO theme analysis** — 20 NGO communications documents scored against 6 themes using TF-IDF 3. **The messaging gap** — side-by-side comparison of family survey responses vs. NGO communications, with gap annotations in percentage points ## Data sources - World Bank — Girls' secondary school enrolment (SE.SEC.ENRR.FE) - UNICEF — Out of School Children Study, Sierra Leone 2021 (Table 9, survey data) - UNICEF Sierra Leone — NGO communications corpus (20 paragraphs drawn from the sources below) ### NGO corpus sources | Source | URL | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | UNICEF Sierra Leone — Education programme page | unicef.org | | UNICEF — Out of School Children Study Sierra Leone | unicef.org …