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The Global Education Initiative (GEI) Model of Effective Partnership Initiatives for Education (2007)
This report presents and describes the Global Education Initiative (GEI) model of effective partnership initiatives for education as it is currently being implemented in Jordan, Rajasthan, India and Egypt and summarizes the many lessons learned in the process of implementing initiatives across these three countries.
UNGEI Country Sheet (2007)
UNGEI presence at country level, June 2007
2005 and Beyond: Accelerating girls’ education in South Asia (2005)
Report of a Meeting
60 Million Girls Missing an Education (2005)
A Fair Chance: Attaining gender equality in basic education by 2005 (2003)
Briefing paper
A Feminist and Critical Perspective on Family - Education Partnerships for Gender Equality and Quality Basic Education (2005)
Paper presented at Seminar in Dhaka on 31 January-1 February 2005
A Human Rights-Based Approach to Education For All (2007)
A framework for the realization of children’s right to education and rights within education
A Qualitative Study to Examine School-Related Gender-Based Violence in Malawi (2008)
The Safe Schools Program has just released A Qualitative Study to Examine School-Related Gender-Based Violence in Malawi which summarizes the results of a participatory learning and action (PLA) research activity conducted in Malawi’s Machinga District to help raise awareness, involvement, and accountability at national, institutional, community and individual levels of school-related gender-based violence.
A Scorecard on Gender Equality and Girls' Education in Asia 1990-2000 (2004)
Advocacy Brief
A toolkit for mainstreaming gender in higher education in Africa (2008)
Ten Modules and a Literature Review
Accelerating Efforts to Achieve Universal Basic Education: A Critical Component of the Global AIDS Response (2005)
Advocacy Brief on Education and AIDS
Accelerating Girl’s Education In Yemen: Rethinking Policies in Teachers’ Recruitment and School Distribution
Policy paper
Accelerating Progress in Girls' Education
'25 by 2005' campaign booklet
Accelerating Progress on Girls' Education: Towards robust and sustainable outcomes
Strategy paper
Achieving Universal Primary Education by 2015: A chance for every child (2003)
Report
Achieving the Gender Parity Millennium Development Goals (2005)
Policy briefing
Advocacy Kit for Promoting Multilingual Education: Including the Excluded (2007)
The Asia and Pacific region is characterized by rich ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity. At the same time, however, this diversity makes educating children from different backgrounds a major challenge.
Arabic INEE Resources
Arabic Translation of the INEE Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crises, and Early Reconstruction (INEE, UNICEF, Save the Children)
Backgrounder - Education (2005)
Behind the Screen (2007)
An inside look at gender inequality in Asia
Beyond Access: Partnership for quality with equity(2005)
Paper presented at Seminar in Dhaka on 31 January-1 February 2005
Beyond Access: Transforming policy and practice for gender equality in education (2005)
Book
Beyond gender: Measuring disparity in South Asia using and education parity index (2008)
This series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia grew out of collaboration between the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia and the newly formed UN Girls’ Education Initiative, and had its genesis at a Regional Meeting on Accelerating Girls’ Education in South Asia in February 2005.
Catalyst for Education and Gender Equality
A resource for academics worldwide on issues of education, gender equality and development. Catalyst convenes scholars from across the world, development practitioners, advocates, activists and – most impotantly – children themselves to explore themes relevant to the realization of gender equality in education.
Catalyst for Education and Gender Equality (2007)
A resource for academics worldwide on issues of education, gender equality and development. Catalyst convenes scholars from across the world, development practitioners, advocates, activists and – most impotantly – children themselves to explore themes relevant to the realization of gender equality in education.
Changes in Girl's Lives: Malawi from 1990 to 1997 (1999)
Departmental Working Paper/Country Study
Changing the Lives of Girls: Evaluation of the African Girls’ Education Initiative (2004)
Evaluation report
Child and Youth Participation Resource Guide (2007)
Resource Guide
Children Having Children (2004)
State of the World Mothers 2004
Children Out of School: Measuring Exclusion from Primary Education
Report
Creating a safe and welcoming school
Attempts to create schools that provide quality education for young people are many. Yet, the pursuit for the latest technological advances for increased effectiveness in education, neglect the need for a school to be a safe and welcoming place for children to learn and grow.
Creating an Enabling Environment for the Advancement of Women and Girls (2006)
A Briefing Paper to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women at its 50th Session
Debt and Education (2007)
Briefing paper, produced by the Jubilee Debt Campaign
Denied a Future? (2001)
4 Volume Set about the right to education of Roma/Gypsy and Traveller children in Europe
Developments: Issue 38 (2007)
Education, Education, Education was the mantra of the UK’s incoming government in 1997. A decade later, as a new Labour Prime Minister takes office, education in the developing world is taking centre stage.
EFA Global Monitoring Report 2003/4 - Gender and Education for All: The lead to equality (2003)
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Girls' right to education (2006)
Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Mr. V. Muñoz Villalobos
Educate Girls: Fight AIDS (2005)
Newsletter
Educate a Woman, Educate a Nation (2003)
Literacy, Gender and HIV/AIDS Series
Educating Girls in South Asia: Promising Approaches (2006)
One of a series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia.
Educating Girls: A Handbook (2003)
A basic reference guide for CIDA staff in Canada and in the field
Education Strategy - Improving lives through learning (2005)
Education Strategy
Education and Gender Series (2005)
Oxfam Programme Insights
Education and conflict: research, policy and practice (2006)
Forced Migration Review, July 2006
Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2005 - The Quality Imperative
Multimedia report
Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2006 - Literacy for Life
Multimedia report
Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2007 - Strong foundations
Multimedia report. Theme: Early childhood care and education.
Education for some more than others?
examines how far the trend towards increased disparities in education has continued in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Education's Missing Millions
Report
Equals: Issue 16, January-March 2006 (2005)
Newsletter for Beyond Access: Gender, Education and Development
Equals: Issue 17, April - July 2006 (2006)
Newsletter for Beyond Access: Gender, Education and Development
Equals: Issue 18, August - November 2006 (2006)
Newsletter for Beyond Access: Gender, Education and Development
Equals: Issue 21, July 2008
Newsletter for Beyond Access: Gender, Education and Development
Establishing Child Friendly Schools in 6 Provinces (2005)
Field Work Report
Evaluation of the Balochistan Rural Girls' Fellowship Program - Will rural families pay to send girls to school?
Research paper
Every Child Needs a Teacher
Campaign Briefing Paper
Exclusion, Gender and Education: Case Studies from the Developing World
This new book, edited by Lewis and Lockheed, includes the more detailed technical analysis and the country case studies on which much of Inexcusable Absence is based. The technical analysis addresses the role of ethnic and linguistic heterogeneity in explaining differences across countries in school enrollment.
Exploring and Understunding Gender in Education
This manual is about how to conduct qualitative research in order to promote gender equality in the classroom, the school, and, by extension, in the wider educational system. It will give you the knowledge and tools you will need to begin exploring and understanding gender disparities in education, their causes, and the ways they can be overcome.
FAWE Strategic Plan 2008-2012
In the last decade, significant steps have been made towardsachieving gender equality in education across Africa. Many sub-Saharan Africa countries have now concrete interventions to ensure free and compulsory primary education for all.
FAWE Newswire... 14 May 2007 (2007)
Newsletter
Facing the Future Together (2004)
Report of the Secretary-General's Task Force on Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa.
Failing Our Children: Barriers to the right to education (2005)
Report
Forced marriage of the girl child (2008)
Report by the UN Commission on the Status of Women
Fostering Opportunities to Learn at an Accelerated Pace: Why do girls benefit enormously? (2004)
Working Paper
Free, Quality Education for Every Afghan Child (2006)
Oxfam briefing paper
From Schooling Access to Learning Outcomes: An Unfinished Agenda (2006)
An Evaluation of the World Bank's Support to Primary Education
From parity to equality in girls' education: How are we doing in South Asia? (2008)
This series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia grew out of collaboration between the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia and the newly formed UN Girls’ Education Initiative, and had its genesis at a Regional Meeting on Accelerating Girls’ Education in South Asia in February 2005.
From the Ground Up: Education and Livelihoods in Southern Sudan (2007)
Report based on findings from a November 2006 assessment where the Women’s Commission looked at education and livelihood projects and opportunities for Southern Sudanese who are returning after decades of displacement.
Gender Achievements and Prospects in Education (2005)
The GAP report (Part One)
Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, Phase II Thematic Evaluation: Education (2005)
Working paper
Gender and Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean: An Annotated Bibliography
A comprehensive bibliography of existing research on gender and education in the Commonwealth Caribbean
Gender and Indicators, 2007
This document provides an overview of the panel presentations and discussion points.
Gender in Primary and Secondary Education: A handbook for policy-makers and other stakeholders
Gender in Primary and Secondary Education has been written in the context of rapidly expanding education systems worldwide, and particularly the rising enrolment of girls in schools.
Gender mainstreaming: Does it happen in education in South Asia? (2008)
This series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia grew out of collaboration between the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia and the newly formed UN Girls’ Education Initiative, and had its genesis at a Regional Meeting on Accelerating Girls’ Education in South Asia in February 2005.
Getting Girls Out of Work and Into School (2006)
Policy Brief
Girl Power: The Impact of Girls’ Education on HIV And Sexual Behaviour (2006)
Education and HIV Series 01
Girls Can’t Wait: Why girls’ education matters, and how to make it
Briefing paper for the UN Beijing +10 Review and Appraisal
Girls Count (2008)
One person in eight is a girl or young woman age 10–24. Young people are the fastest growing segment of the population in developing countries, and their welfare is a fundamental input for key economic and social outcomes -- including the size and competitiveness of tomorrow's labor force, future economic growth, improved governance, and healthy civil societies.
Girls' Education - World Bank support through IDA (1999)
Departmental Working Paper
Girls' Education: Towards a better future for all
Brochure
Girls' education: towards a better future for all -- Progress Report (2006)
A report charting progress made by DFID since it published its strategy for girl’s education, Girls’ Education: towards a better future for all in 2005.
Girls, Educational Equity and Mother Tongue-based Teaching (2005)
Advocacy paper
Girls, Women and HIV/AIDS in Eastern Africa (2006)
A desk review based on studying available literature on girls, women and HIV/AIDS in Eastern Africa.
Girls’ Education in Africa: What do we know about strategies that work? (2004)
Working paper on successful strategies in improving girls' education in Africa
Girls’ schooling in Tanzania: the key to HIV/AIDS prevention? (2006)
From AIDS Care - Volume 18, Number 8 / November 2006, pp 863 - 871
Global AIDSLink: Girls and HIV - A New Epidemic in the Women of Tomorrow? (2007)
Issue 101, January/February 2007, Monthly publication published by Global Health Council
Global Monitoring Report 2007: Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile States (2007)
Global report
Global School Feeding Report 2006 (2006)
Report
Global School Feeding Report 2005
Report
Global School Report 2008: No Excuses!
A global report card ranking governments efforts to achieve Education for All.
Global Task Force on Child Labour and Education for All (GTF) - Newsletter No.3 (2008)
March 2008 newsletter from IPEC
Human Development Report (2005)
International Cooperation at a Crossroads: Aid, trade and security
INEE Case Studies
The INEE Secretariat and the Women’s Commission are very pleased to inform you of the overwhelming response we have had to the call for case studies on Teacher Compensation.
Impact of Incentives to Increase Girls' Access to and Retention in Basic Education (2005)
Advocacy Brief
Integrating Gender into Education for All Fast Track Initiative Processes and National Education Plans (2005)
Study
It's time to listen to us! (2007)
Working document - youth response to the Report of the Expert Group Meeting on the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child
Keeping the Promise: Five Benefits of Girls’ Secondary Education (2006)
Data and analysis on the importance of educating girls in developing countries
Last Call for 2005
Consensus Statement of UNGEI to the High Level Group
Last in Line, Last in School (2007)
Report by Save the Children that identifies key areas of policy and practise that need to change in order to give children in conflict-affected fragile states get an education.
Mainstreaming gender for better girls' education: Policy and institutional issues (2006)
One of a series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia.
Making Schools Safe for Girls: Combating Gender-Based Violence in Benin (2004)
Report
Making UNGEI Work: Lessons from Four African Countries
Evaluation report
Measuring gender inequality in education in South Asia (2006)
One of a series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia.
Meeting the Challenge of Change - AED 2007-2008 Annual Report (2008)
Change. It’s happening faster than ever. Today people are struggling just to keep up with change. Some stay apace. A few get ahead. For many of the world's people, change-even positive change-leaves them behind completely. AED is meeting the challenge of change in the U.S. and developing countries.
Millennium Development Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education
Fact sheet
Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crises and Early Reconstruction
National Strategic Plan for the Education of Girls and Other Vulnerable Populations: 2005-2010 (2006)
Leaflet summarizing the Girls' Education Strategic Plan in Zimbabwe with highlights to action points, principles, key results and more
New Partnerships for EFA: Building on Experience (2008)
A global review
New Partnerships for EFA: Building on Experience (2008)
Moves to expand partnerships for development to involve the private sector, including business, foundations and a wide range of civil society organizations, have gathered strength in recent years.
Planning and Evaluation for Gender Equality in Education in the Context of HIV and AIDS (2005)
Paper presented at Seminar in Dhaka on 31 January-1 February 2005
Poverty and economic vulnerability in South Asia: Does it impact girls' education? (2008)
This series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia grew out of collaboration between the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia and the newly formed UN Girls’ Education Initiative, and had its genesis at a Regional Meeting on Accelerating Girls’ Education in South Asia in February 2005.
Preventing HIV in Young Women and Girls (2006)
Backgrounder
Principally Women: Gender in the Politics of Mexican Education (2006)
Chapter from Changing Structure of Mexico: Political, Social, and Economic Prospects (Columbia University Seminar Series)
Progress for Children No. 2 (2005)
A report card on gender parity and primary education
Progress in girls' education: The challenge of gender equality in South Asia (2008)
This series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia grew out of collaboration between the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia and the newly formed UN Girls’ Education Initiative, and had its genesis at a Regional Meeting on Accelerating Girls’ Education in South Asia in February 2005.
Promoting women's rights through Sharia in Northern Nigeria (2006)
This report is part of a project that seeks to promote respect for the rights of Muslim women in Northern Nigeria through Sharia.
Providing Education to Girls from Remote and Rural Areas (2005)
Advocacy brief
Quality and Equality in Education: Gendered politics of institutional change (2005)
Paper presented at Seminar in Dhaka on 31 January-1 February 2005
Raising Student Learning in Latin America (2007)
The Challenge of the 21st Century
Rapid Assessment of Learning Spaces in Southern Sudan (2006)
Report on the result of the Rapid Assessment of Learning Spaces (RALS) exercise in Southern Sudan, done in collaboration between the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) of the Government of Southern Sudan and UNICEF.
Reaching the Girls in South Asia: Differentiated Needs and Responses in Emergencies (2006)
One of a series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia.
Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict (2007)
Report - 10 year strategic review of Graça Machel's 1996 study on children in armed conflict
Review of the Evidence: Girls’ Education and HIV Prevention CD-ROM (2006)
CD-ROM of policy documents, case studies, reports, tools, curricula and other materials, aimed to expand the evidence base on the link between girls’ education and HIV prevention.
Rewrite the Future (2006)
This report is part of Save the Children’s five-year Rewrite the Future education initiative, which seeks to help millions of children in conflict-affected areas gain access to and reap the current and future benefits of a quality education.
Role of Men and Boys in Promoting Gender Equality (2004)
Advocacy Brief
Scaling Up Girls' Education: Towards a scorecard on girls' education in the Commonwealth (2004)
Academic research paper
State of World Population 2005
The Promise of Equality: Gender Equity, Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals
Student and Teacher Baseline Report on School-Related Gender-Based Violence in Machinga District, Malawi (december 2007)
The Safe Schools Program has just released the Student and Teacher Baseline Report on School-Related Gender-Based Violence in Machinga District, Malawi which details the methodology, population characteristics, and results of a recently conducted survey on gender-based physical, psychological and sexual violence at schools including in the classroom and on the school grounds as well as going to and from school.
Study of Policies and Programmes Addressing the Right of Street Children to Education (2005)
Research Report
Taking Action: Achieving gender equality and empowering women (2005)
Task Force on Education and Gender Equality Report
Teachers and Educational Quality: Monitoring Global Needs for 2015
UNESCO Institute for Statistics report
Teaching Well? Educational Reconstruction Efforts and support to teachers in postwar Liberia (2007)
At a time when the development of a robust and relevant education system for Liberia is so critical, and the IRC’s education interventions are being scaled up with a particular focus on teachers, teacher support and development, this study provides important insight on teachers’ lives and the conditions in which they work.
The Challenge of Achieving Gender Parity in Education
Statistical Review
The Costs of Missing the Millennium Development Goal on Gender Equity (2003)
Discussion paper
The Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2008
“Education for All by 2015: Will we make it?” asks the title of the 2008 edition of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, launched on 29 November at the United Nations in New York.
The Global Education Initiative (GEI) Model of Effective Partnership Initiatives for Education (2007)
This report presents and describes the Global Education Initiative (GEI) model of effective partnership initiatives for education as it is currently being implemented in Jordan, Rajasthan, India and Egypt and summarizes the many lessons learned in the process of implementing initiatives across these three countries.
The Human Rights Education Action Plan
Following the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004), the plan defines five keys to success of human rights education.
The Impact of Women Teachers on Girls' Education (2006)
Advocacy Brief
The Millennium Development Goals Report (2007)
Report
The Multi-Country Child-Friendly Schools for Africa Capacity Development Workshop II Report (2006)
Report on workshop held 21- 24 August 2006 at the Rovuma Hotel in Maputo, Mozambique
The Nigerian Child (2008)
Ensuring Education for All
The Power and Promise of Girls' Education (2005)
State of the World's Mothers 2005
The Road Not Traveled (2008)
Education Reform in the Middle East and North Africa
The Spider Tool
A self assessment and planning tool for child-led initiatives and organizations
The State of the World's Children 2006: Excluded and Invisible
Multimedia Report
The State of the World's Children 2007: The Double Dividend of Gender Equality (2006)
Multimedia report. The State of the World's Children is UNICEF’s flagship publication that closely examines a key issue affecting children.
The State of the World’s Children 2004: Girls, education and development (2003)
Report
The Story of the Future
Animated Report
The Structure of Social Disparities in Education: Gender and Wealth (1999)
Working Paper
The Untapped Opportunity: How Public-Private Partnerships Can Advance Education for All (2006)
This report highlights 4 areas in which public-private partnerships can make investments that matter: entry, retention, learning and inequality.
Toolkit for Mainstreaming HIV and AIDS in the Education Sector: Guidelines for Development Cooperation Agencies
This toolkit aims to help education staff from development cooperation agencies, including both development and humanitarian-oriented multilateral and bilateral agencies as well as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other civil society organizations, to support the process of mainstreaming HIV and AIDS into education sector planning and implementation.
Toward High-quality Education in Peru: Standards, Accountability, and Capacity Building (2007)
Paperback book - 166 pages
Toward Universal Primary Education: Investments, incentives and institutions (2005)
Task Force on Education and Gender Equality Report
Towards Equal Opportunities for All: Empowering girls through partnerships in education (2007)
The document introduces seven good practice case studies from East Asia on programmes addressing the educational needs of girls, particularly those who are marginalized for economic, cultural, social or other reasons.
Training Guide: Continuum of Approaches for Achieving Gender Integration in Programming: A Decision-Making Tool for Education Officers
Toolkit prepared by the EQUATE team for USAID
Transition to Post-Primary Education: Focus on Girls (2007)
PowerPoint presentation prepared for the UNGEI Regional Meeting for East and Southern Africa
UN Secretary-General's study on violence against women (2006)
An in-depth study on all forms of violence against women.
UNGEI Country Sheet (2006)
UNGEI presence at country level, November 2006
UNGEI Fact Sheet (2006)
Background information, November 2006
UNGEI Forum: Child Friendly Schools and Care and Support in Schools (2006)
Vol. 6 No. 1 March 2006
UNGEI Forum: Education in Emergencies (2007)
Vol. 7 No. 1 April 2007
UNGEI Forum: Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps) in Education (2006)
Vol. 6 No. 2 September 2006
UNGEI Regional Updates
Brochure
Voices from Rural Guinea on the Education of Girls and Boys (2005)
Paper as a result of a nine-day visit by a team from Princeton University to Guinea to understand the issues currently facing girls’ education and to provide recommendations.
Waiting Opportunities: Adolescent girls experiences of gender-based violence at schools (2006)
Research report
What Works in Girls' Education: Evidence and policies from the developing world (2004)
Report
White Paper on International Development, 'Eliminating world poverty: Making governance work for the poor' (2006)
Consultation paper with contributions from over 600 MPs, organisations and people, written by DFID in consultation with non-governmental organisations (NGOs), Whitehall and other partners.
Why Do Girls Miss Out More Often? (2005)
Lesson Plans
Winning People’s Will for Girl Child Education (2006)
Case study on Girls’ Education in Nepal. Action-research project.
Working with the Media on Gender and Education (2006)
A Guide for Training and Planning
World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation (2006)
World Bank report which focuses on the theme of youth
World Hunger Series 2006, Hunger and Learning Overview (2006)
WFP annual publication aimed at policymakers which focuses on practical strategies to end hunger.
Young Champions for Education (2007)
2007 Training of Trainers Workshop Report
‘Scaling Up’ Good Practices in Girls’ Education (2005)
This report focuses on strategies for meeting international targets and national goals for universalizing girls’ access to, retention in and completion of quality education.
“Don’t Forget Us”: The Education and Gender-Based Violence Protection Needs of Adolescent Girls from Darfur in Chad (2005)
“Will you listen?” Young voices from conflict zones (2007)
Report

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