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The Gender at the Centre Initiative (GCI) supports, convenes, and advocates for the leadership of ministries of education and national civil society actors to advance gender equality in and through education. Since 2020, the GCI has been promoting gender equality in education in eight African countries namely Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. The GCI is jointly coordinated by the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) and UNESCO-IIEP. 

Through GCI, a rapid assessment of gender equality in and through education was conducted using the Gender Equality in Education Snapshot Toolkit (GES Toolkit). The GES Toolkit was developed by UNGEI and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) to help education planners and practitioners conduct a rapid assessment of gender equality in and through education. It provides an initial diagnosis of a country's situation in terms of gender equality in the education system, as well as in other areas. The objective of the rapid assessment in Mali was to facilitate a common understanding of the situation of gender equality in the education system for members of the Local Education Partners Group (LEPG) and to identify priority areas for further gender analysis.