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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: 16 Days of Activism: Together we can end gender-based violence in schoolsLaunching today: 16 Days of Activism Against School-Related Gender-Based Violence. This year’s campaign explores a 'whole school approach’ to tackling SRGBV, culminating in the release of a series of briefs and an open letter appeal to the countries of the world. Join us in learning how we can work together to address this global crisis.Read more >
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News: New policy note: putting gender equality at the heart of education
As ministers convene for the twelfth Commonwealth Women’s Affairs Ministers Meeting in Nairobi, a new policy note - Gender-Responsive Education Sector Planning – a pathway to gender equality in education - is being launched today through the Platform for Girls’ Education as part of the Leave No Girl Behind Campaign.
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News: Gender-Responsive Education Sector Planning Workshop: NigeriaBringing together delegations from Jigawa, Kaduna, Katsina, Kano and Sokoto states as well as the Federal Government of Nigeria, this week’s event is not only the first national GRESP workshop, but it is also the first to include a youth delegation.Read more >
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News: G7 leaders pledge support to new gender equality initiative
The Declaration on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment issued at the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Biarritz, France, builds new momentum in efforts to ensure education for all children as well as powerful support for the Gender at the Center Initiative.
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News: International Day of the Girl 2019 theme: ‘GirlForce: Unscripted and Unstoppable’
Under the theme, ‘GirlForce: Unscripted and Unstoppable’, International Day of the Girl will this year celebrate achievements by, with and for girls since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and passage of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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News: Practical tools to break gender barriers for education in emergenciesLaunched today: the revised INEE Guidance Note on Gender is designed to equip policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and civil society organisations to deliver education that is relevant to the needs of girls and boys growing up in contexts of conflict and crisis.Read more >
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Missed opportunities: the high cost of not educating girlsSee more >
This report estimates the global impact of depriving girls of education as well as showing how educational attainment can affect their life chances and choices, and the outcomes of this at an individual, family and community level. Its findings show the transformative power of education for girls in six areas: (1) earnings and standards of living, (2) child marriage and early childbearing, (3) fertility and population growth, (4) health, nutrition and well-being, (5) agency and decision-making, and (6) social capital and institutions. Findings indicate that limited educational opportunities for girls and barriers to completing 12 years of education cost countries between $15 trillion and $30 trillion dollars in lost lifetime productivity and earnings. The report also finds that primary education is not enough. Across many indicators, benefits from primary education only are limited.
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Global 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.
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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.
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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.