764- Similarly, NGOs and other actors organised awareness raising campaigns with parents, traditional and community leaders to encourage school enrolment for young girls in priority education zones to fight against cultural barriers. Thus, in several localities, gender counselling spaces were created. These are avenues for discussion that bring together authorities, parents and pupils in order to properly consider challenges which the girl child could be exposed to at school. An alert system was put in place in the PEZ in collaboration with the National Network of Mothers’ Associations for Girls’ Education (RECAMEF) to denounce cases of violence against young girls. Also, capacity building campaigns for behavioural change in parent education were carried out for members of the community to better equip parents to raise the young girl properly. Moreover, 148 girls clubs and 81 AMEEs (Mother pupil associations) were created with the support of the ALDEPA in schools in the 6 Divisions of the Far North Region. These community structures carry out awareness raising activities on the protection of the rights of the young girl. Owing to their social influence, 106 wives of traditional rulers in the Far North Region were educated in 2014 and 2015 on the protection of children’s rights and the promotion of education for young girls in their communities. 765- Regarding incentives, government strategy was to provide scholarships and pedagogic kits to the most disadvantaged and vulnerable girls and substitute or supplement school nutrition measures (dry rations, canteen). The provision of food and dry rations to children and particularly to girls was done with the support of development partners such as WFP and Counterpart. The food distributed for the years 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 to beneficiary schools405 was 800,932 tons. Thus, 36,140 pupils benefited from rations in the canteen meanwhile 3 393 girls benefited from take-home rations. Some 501,087 pupils benefited from project carried out with the support of Counterpart, worth CFAF400,000,000 with the following impact: drop in the rate of early marriages among young girls in the beneficiary communities, increase in school enrolment and attendance rate of girls as well as retention rate406. 766- As support to the request for school enrolment for the young girl, about 20,000 birth certificates were issued to young girls during the reference period with the help of partners. More so, 10,000 academic scholarships were granted to girls in primary 6 in the PEZ to prepare their files for the FSLC and Common Entrance to go to Form 1. 767- All these efforts contributed to improve the rate of school enrolment for girls. The rate of completion of primary education was 79.7% for boys for the academic year 2014-2015 against 72.8% for girls meanwhile the rate of transition from primary to secondary school was 77.8% for girls against 78% for boys. The net rate of secondary school attendance was 55% for boys and 50% for girls. The gender parity index at primary level was 0.91 whereas the index at secondary was 0.92. Table 13: School attendance among the youth in 2014 Girls Rate of Completion of primary education Transition from primary to secondary Net rate of school attendance in secondary education 72.8 77.8 50 Boys 79.7 78 55 Parity Index 0.91 0.99 0.91 Source: Statistical Yearbook MINEDUB 405 That is, 84 public schools; 35 in the North and 49 in the Far North) in 2014/2015 and 68 schools (35 in the North and 33 in the Far North) in 2015/2016. 406 Besides the distribution of dry take-home rations to young girls in classes 4, 5 and 6, REAs to volunteer cooks and provision of two meals per day (breakfast and lunch) during school days, there is also the support to set up school gardens and community farms by providing farm inputs and agricultural equipment to ensure consolidation of skills acquired. 128