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UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report and UNGEI launch the 2018 Gender Review entitled ‘Meeting our commitments to gender equality in education’. Read the report >>
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Education unions in eastern and southern Africa are taking action to end gender based violence in and around schools. Join their campaign by following the hashtag #UnionsSpeak! Learn more here >>
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UNESCO releases 2017/18 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report 'Accountability in education: Meeting our commitments' Report highlights 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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News: Gender-Responsive Education Sector Planning Workshop: West and Central Africa RegionUNGEI and the Global Partnership for Education are this week co-convening a workshop in Lomé, Togo, designed to advance gender-responsive education sector planning across the West and Central Africa region.Read more > -
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News: Gender, Learning and Teaching in Rural Contexts: An UNGEI CSW62 side eventRead more >As part of the 62nd Session on the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW), UNGEI co-hosted a panel event with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Education International entitled ‘Agenda 2030 for all: gender, learning and teaching in rural contexts’.
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News: Help shape Women Deliver 2019!Women Deliver is set to host the world's largest conference on health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women. The Women Deliver 2019 conference will take place 3rd of June 2019 in Vancouver Canada, and to help shape the conference, Women Deliver is asking partners to share their thoughts on what they would like to see on the conference agenda. UNGEI encourages education partners to contribute to make girls' education a priority!Read more > -
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News: UN envoy calls for doubling funding for kids in emergenciesThe U.N. special envoy for global education is calling for a doubling of funding for education for youngsters who are refugees and caught in humanitarian emergencies. Gordon Brown stated that the number of children trapped in humanitarian crises is now estimated at 70 million and that the number is expected to grow in 2018. Brown said education has received more funding than ever in 2017 — over $700 million for refugees and humanitarian emergencies — but about $1.4 billion is needed to ensure that these children can go to school.Read more > -
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News: 30 days to fund education and shape the future!The countdown is on with less than 30 days to go until the GPE Financing Conference begins. From February 1st - 2nd 2018, donor and developing country governments, the private sector, philanthropic foundations, civil society and international organizations will gather in Dakar, Senegal to discuss the future of education and investment, marking the beginning of a new era in education financing.Read more > -
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News: Global Gender Gap Report benchmarks countries on progress towards gender parityGender parity is fundamental to whether and how economies and societies thrive. Ensuring the full development and appropriate deployment of half of the world’s total talent pool has a vast bearing on the growth, competitiveness and future-readiness of economies and businesses worldwide. The Global Gender Gap Report benchmarks 144 countries on their progress towards gender parity across four thematic dimensions: Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment. In addition, this year’s edition also analyses the dynamics of gender gaps across industry talent pools and occupations.Read more >
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Gender Education Monitoring Report Gender Review 2018See more >In this sixth Gender Review, a series that began in 2011, the Global Education Monitoring Report team maintains the focus on a broad conception of gender equality that extends beyond counting boys and girls in classrooms. The review's first part examines disparities in participation and skills, in education and political leadership positions, and in selected aspects of infrastructure and curricula. It also examines gender issues in professional development by exploring the role of education in three other SDGs: those concerning agriculture, health and water sanitation. The second part of the review analyses institutions, laws and policies to explore ways to determine and enforce accountability for gender equality in education. -
Evidence Review: Mitigating threats to girls' education in conflict affected contexts - current practiceSee more >Recognising the particular vulnerabilities affecting girls in conflict-affected contexts, this review focuses on girls’ education. The cost of not investing in education for girls far exceeds the cost of investing. Girls’ education increases economic growth, increases women’s wages, improves women’s health, reduces child marriage, and increases individual and community empowerment. Furthermore, actions that enable girls’ education in conflict-affected contexts can create ‘windows of opportunity’ for transformative change that may not have existed prior to the conflict. -
GEM Report 2017/18 - Accountability in education: Meeting our commitmentsSee more >Accountability in education: meeting our commitments, the second in the GEM Report series, which monitors progress towards the internationally agreed Sustainable Development Goal for Education (SDG4), looks at the different ways people and institutions can be held accountable for reaching that goal, including regulations, testing, monitoring, audits, media scrutiny, and grass root movements. -
Addressing Threats to Girls’ Education in Contexts affected by Armed ConflictSee more >This policy note contends that greater investment in girls’ education in conflict-affected contexts is urgently required as a critical component of achieving SDGs 4, 5 and 16. At-scale programmes, research and multi-sectoral collaboration must be strengthened to ensure all of the world’s girls are achieving and learning, that gender equality goals are achieved and that these efforts contribute to building sustainable peace.The information contained in this policy note is based on the findings of an evidence review conducted by ODI ‘Addressing Threats to Girls Education in Conflict-affected Contexts’ (2017) as well as other cited publications.