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NEW REPORT: 'Still left behind: Pathways to inclusive education for girls with disabilities', a joint Leonard Cheshire Disability and UNGEI publication, is now available for download. Download Full Report >>
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Join UNESCO August 28-30 in Bangkok for their International Symposium and Policy Forum. Read more below on the 2017 theme, 'Cracking the Code: Girls’ Education in STEM'. More here >>
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GPE and UNGEI are pleased to launch the 'Guidance for Developing Gender-Responsive Education Sector Plans'. Download and read about the Guidance in our latest blog. More here >>
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From 2014 - 2016 the ‘UNGEI Good Practice Fund’ supported 17 organisations and local governments from across the globe to shed light on best practices and lessons learnt in gender focused education initiatives. Click below to view the findings. Read More >>
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The Campaign for Female Education (Camfed) is dedicated to fighting poverty and AIDS in rural communities in Africa by educating girls.
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News: UNESCO Report - Education critical in preventing adolescent pregnancyNow available, UNESCO's latest report on evidence-based recommendations on the key role education plays in preventing and responding to early and unintended pregnancy (EUP). The launch of the technical brief ‘Early and unintended pregnancy: Recommendations for the education sector’ and the background document coincided with the 2017 London Family Planning Summit on July 10, 2017 where UNESCO will confirm its commitment to support the contribution of national education sectors to ending AIDS and promoting better health and well-being for all children and young people, especially girls.Read more > -
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News: GPE Chair Julia Gillard to G20 leaders 'step forward and increase foreign aid and support for education'Ahead of the G20 summit, Global Partnership for Education Chair, Julia Gillard calls on world leaders to invest in education. In a recent CNN interview, Gillard warned G20 leaders on the dangers of under-investment in education stating that by staying on the current course of decreased aid investment in education, "we are going to see is a world where prosperity can't be shared and a world of more instability." Of recent years aid to education has reduced threatening the achievement of global education goals. The solution Gillard and the Global Partnership for Education proposes includes a 2 billion dollar investment a year to meet 2020 education targets. Watch the full interview here.Read more > -
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News: Child Marriage Will Cost Developing Countries Trillions of Dollars by 2030, Says World Bank/ICRW ReportChild marriage will cost developing countries trillions of dollars by 2030, says a new report published by the World Bank and the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). In contrast, ending child marriage would have a large positive effect on the educational attainment of girls and their children, contribute to women having fewer children and later in life, and increase women’s expected earnings and household welfare. According to the report, in the past 30 years, the prevalence of child marriage (marriage or union before the age of 18) has decreased in many countries, but it still remains far too high.Read more > -
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News: UIS Education Data Release: New indicators and more data for countries in every regionA new policy paper released jointly by UNESCO’s Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report shows that the global poverty rate could be more than halved if all adults completed secondary school. Yet new UIS data show persistent out-of-school rates, making it likely that education levels will remain well below that target for generations to come.Read more > -
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News: Brookings Webinar: Year-two results of the world’s first development impact bond for educationOn June 29, the Center for Universal Education at Brookings invites you to join the partners of the world’s first development impact bond for education for a lively discussion of the learnings and results from the second year – and mid-point – of the world’s first development impact bond. The impact bond provides financing for Educate Girls, a non-profit that aims to increase enrollment for out-of-school girls and improve learning outcomes for girls and boys in Rajasthan, India.Read more > -
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News: Nobel Prize-winner Professor Amartya Sen launches IOE Centre for Education and International DevelopmentNobel Prize-winning economist Professor Amartya Sen (Harvard University) launched the UCL Institute of Education’s (IOE) Centre for Education and International Development (CEID) on Thursday 15 June. This new research centre will build on the IOE’s leading contribution to the academic field of education and international development, bringing together a wide range of academics, students, alumni and practitioners working in diverse settings in every continent to address some of the world’s most important challenges.Read more >
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Bright and Early: How financing pre-primary education gives every child a fair start in lifeSee more >This paper shows that pre-primary education has not yet achieved the level of priority necessary in domestic policies and budgets, with nearly all low income countries dedicating less than 5% of their education budgets to pre-primary education. -
Girls' education and gender in education sector plans and GPE-funded programsSee more >This report takes stock of how girls' education and gender issues are included in education sector plans as well as implementation plans of GPE partner countries, and in the programs that are funded by GPE grants. The objective of the report is to establish a baseline for information available in current documents, in order to inform and improve the consideration of gender issues in future sector plans, and to promote the achievement of the GPE strategic objective 2 on gender equality and inclusion. -
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Still left behind: Pathways to inclusive education for girls with disabilitiesSee more >This report brings to light the persistent and significant gaps in research regarding education and disability, and in particular the need for more attention to the experience of girls with disabilities. -
The Man Box: A Study on Being a Young Man in the US, UK, and MexicoSee more >Promundo, Axe, and research partners – set out at the end of 2016 to investigate young men’s lives in the United States (US), the United Kingdom (UK), and Mexico. The central analytical tool of the study is what we and many others call the “Man Box”: a set of beliefs, communicated by parents, families, the media, peers, and other members of society, that place pressure on men to be a certain way. This study seeks to give research rigor to the concept of the Man Box, measuring how young men encounter these messages socially and internalize them personally.