Together for Her Success
Girls' education, designed for the realities that exclude girls and women from learning
Girls' education is among the most consistently validated drivers of long-term development outcomes. Each additional year of education is associated with 10-20% higher future earnings, with strong intergenerational effects across health, stability, and opportunity.
The constraint is not evidence. It is delivery.
Across regions, girls and women are routinely excluded from education and training for reasons that traditional models struggle to solve: time poverty, language barriers, digital access gaps, and social isolation.
The Solution Together for Her Success is TEEI's program architecture for addressing those barriers through a structured pathway—connection, language, and skills—with mentorship integrated across each stage.
This page explains the model. Detailed program eligibility, schedules, and application flows are available on the individual program pages.
Why access fails for girls and women
Education breaks down when learning systems assume time, stability, connectivity, and confidence that many girls and women do not have.
Time poverty and care responsibilities
Women and girls carry roughly three quarters of unpaid care work globally, which directly reduces the time available for structured learning. Training dropout risk increases materially when care responsibilities are present.
Language as a gatekeeper
Language barriers reduce women's employment probability by up to 40% in comparable contexts and consistently lower participation in training, services, and formal labor markets.
Isolation as a dropout driver
Women report 15-25% higher persistent loneliness, and migrant women are 2-3x more likely to experience severe social isolation. Evidence indicates that a single trusted connection can increase program retention by 20-30%—making peer support a prerequisite for completion.
Digital exclusion as structural exclusion
Work, education, and public services increasingly require digital competence. In the United States, analysis of job postings has found that 92% of jobs require digital skills, while a large share of workers lack foundational capabilities.
In Latin America, women face a well-documented digital gender gap, and informal employment remains widespread, limiting access to employer-provided training and stable upskilling routes.
"The practical conclusion is straightforward: if programs are not designed for these constraints, participation and completion will remain uneven—and women will be systematically under-served."
The Reality of Delivery
Why women-focused design is necessary
"Gender-neutral" programs frequently underperform for women in predictable ways. In mixed settings, men often represent a majority of enrollments even when women are the intended beneficiaries, and women's completion rates tend to be lower without intentional design.
TEEI's approach is women-focused because neutral systems often reproduce unequal outcomes. The aim is not to create parallel programs; it is to design pathways that women can actually complete.
Where the model is applied
Latin America
Priority Delivery Region
Latin America is a delivery focus because need and feasibility overlap:
- A large and persistent digital gender gap limits access to education and jobs.
- Informal employment is widespread, reducing stable pathways into training and formal work.
- Migrant and displaced women experience elevated isolation, which correlates directly with early dropout.
Ukraine
Continued Delivery
TEEI continues operating established Ukraine programs where delivery is already proven and stable.
North America
Strategic Support Region
North America strengthens delivery elsewhere through remote participation—volunteers, mentors, and skills-based contributors—while remaining selective about beneficiary inclusion (e.g., women facing digital exclusion).
The Together for Her Success pathway
The pathway is designed as a sequence. Each stage reduces a specific dropout risk and increases readiness for the next.
Stage 1: Connection
Buddy support reduces isolation and increases retention.
Peer connection is positioned as the entry point because the evidence is clear: belonging and consistency are prerequisites for completion.
- Women-to-women peer connection
- Regular check-ins and accountability
- A supportive structure that increases persistence and reduces early dropout
Stage 2: Participation
Language unlocks participation in education, work, and community life.
Language is often the strongest single predictor of whether women can access training, navigate services, and move into better work.
- Structured group classes with certified teachers
- Fully online format
- Supportive learning environment designed for consistency
Stage 3: Capability
Skills build functional independence in a digital-first economy.
Skills training succeeds when it is scaffolded, practical, and designed for real constraints (time, devices, confidence, and bandwidth).
TEEI's Skills Academy Approach:
- - Programs lasting 8+ weeks outperform short, intensive formats.
- - Cohort and peer learning increases persistence.
- - "Quick wins" and practical tasks reduce the confidence barrier that blocks early progress.
- - Smartphone-first and low-bandwidth learning are essential when many learners are mobile-dependent.
Skills Progression:
Mentorship
Integrated across the pathway
Mentorship improves clarity, confidence, and decision-making. At the same time, evidence shows mentorship alone is often insufficient to generate employment outcomes for women without structured skills and job linkages.
TEEI uses mentorship as relational infrastructure across the pathway—supporting participants through language progress, skills completion, and career navigation.
- - Career guidance and transition support
- - CV and LinkedIn feedback
- - Interview preparation
- - Structured matching with experienced volunteer mentors
- - Market insight for new labor markets
Women's Entrepreneurship (Ukraine)
TEEI also operates a structured entrepreneurship pathway for Ukrainian women building economic stability through business creation and growth.
The Women's Entrepreneurship Initiative includes four tracks:
Spanish-language access
To reduce language barriers for Spanish-speaking participants, Spanish versions of key women's program pages are available here:
/es/students/women/Delivery record and measurement
Together for Her Success is built on practical delivery: online education supported by structured human connection, measured through participation and progression.
TEEI tracks program delivery using operational metrics such as: Learners reached, Learning hours delivered, Match volume (buddy pairs and mentorship pairs), and Engagement, retention, and progression through the pathway.
Across recent deployments, TEEI programs have delivered:
These figures are used for accountability and program improvement—not storytelling.
Safeguarding, privacy, and respectful participation
Girls and women complete learning when they can participate safely and consistently. TEEI program environments are designed with clear expectations for respectful conduct and support routes, and safeguarding information is provided on program pages where participants engage directly.
Data collection is limited to what is needed for delivery, matching, support, and reporting, with an emphasis on responsible handling and participant trust.
Program Index
For convenience, the full set of women's program pages referenced above:
Corporate Partnership Models
Turn intent into impact. Together for Her Success offers structured ways for organizations to support women's and girls' education with clear delivery, credible operations, and CSR/ESG-aligned reporting.
Employee Volunteering
Role-based tracks with clear onboarding and support. We provide playbooks, coordination, safeguarding, and quarterly reporting.
Partners Provide
Internal recruitment, communications, and time allocation for employees.
Programme Sponsorship
Underwrite defined delivery with outcome reporting. Support options cover specific operational costs and delivery infrastructure.
Skills-Based Partnership
Time-bound collaborations that make programs better—implemented, measurable improvements (not just advice).
Focus Areas
- Smoother learner onboarding
- Stronger retention routines
- Curriculum assets
- Spanish-first localization
Hiring Pathways
Where appropriate, partners can connect with Skills Academy graduates through curated introductions, showcases, and structured early-career routes (internships/returnships).
"Connecting skilled women directly to opportunity is the ultimate validation of the learning model."
Governance and Infrastructure
TEEI is a registered NGO in Norway (Org. #928 776 719) with a U.S. 501(c)(3) affiliate, operating with established platforms (learning, matching) and quarterly reporting for accountability.