http://www.ungei.org/ News from UNGEI en-us Copyright 2007-2010, UNGEI http://www.ungei.org/rss/ http://www.unicef.org/images/hp_ungei_banner_thn.gif http://www.ungei.org/ http://www.ungei.org/news/index_2915.html The Global Partnership for Education has helped more than 19 million children go to school for the first time. A campaign to renew support for these efforts will culminate in a pledging event in Copenhagen on 7-8 November. http://www.ungei.org/news/2253_2855.html World Teachers' Day is a global observance to acknowledge all teachers for their contributions to society. The joint East Asia and Pacific and South Asia Regional United Nations Girls' Education Initiatives join the international community in celebrating the important role that teachers play in realizing this year's theme of 'Teachers for Gender Equality'. http://www.ungei.org/news/zimbabwe_2868.html After completing the fourth grade at the top of her class, 13-year-old Ellen Mbedzi was forced to drop out of Mafeha Primary School in Bulilima, a district in south-western Zimbabwe. Her unemployed father did not see the value of spending the family's limited resources on a girl. http://www.ungei.org/news/247_2913.html The impact of education on demography is widely known and acknowledged. Education for women and girls, in particular, translates into lifetime benefits including higher incomes and lower child and maternal mortality. http://www.ungei.org/news/index_2912.html Access to education is one of the key priorities for the government of the world's newest nation, South Sudan. http://www.ungei.org/news/haiti_2867.html Lucien, 11, is the only child in his class not wearing a uniform. Sporting a t-shirt and jeans, he looks out of place amid throngs of children wearing neatly ironed, identical blue and white uniforms. http://www.ungei.org/news/zambia_2865.html Ensuring girls go to school and mobilizing their local communities to help keep them there are vital strategies to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of 'education for all'. http://www.ungei.org/news/247_2862.html Representatives from United Nations agencies, governments, the private sector and civil society recently gathered at the Women & Girls Education Summit in New York, to explore linkages between girls' education and economic development. http://www.ungei.org/news/247_2859.html Today, on World Teachers' Day, we honour the millions of educators all over the world who devote their lives to teaching children, youth and adults. http://www.ungei.org/news/yemen_2857.html There is a spirit of harmony in one classroom packed with teenage students at the Al-Hussein Ben Ali School in Al-Mazahin; where the boys happily take their place on the floor, leaving the few available desks for the girls. http://www.ungei.org/news/index_2853.html UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) will host a High Level Policy Forum on "Gender equality in education: Looking beyond parity" on 3 and 4 October in Paris. http://www.ungei.org/news/247_2851.html The Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) announces a call for the second round of research proposals from research institutions for its Strengthening Gender Research to Improve Girls' and Women's Education in Africa Initiative. http://www.ungei.org/news/index_2852.html Some 1.1 million children with disabilities in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States are hidden away at home or in institutions. http://www.ungei.org/news/247_2850.html Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan met with Cheryl Gregory Faye, Head of the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) Secretariat, and Maria Calivis, UNICEF's outgoing Chief of Staff and incoming Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, on 20 September, to discuss how UNGEI is contributing toward the progress in girls' education and what needs to be done to bridge the gaps. http://www.ungei.org/news/zambia_2849.html Last month, 28-year-old Mildred from western Zambia became the first person in her village to graduate from university. Mildred grew up in a family of nine children in Shangombo, a remote district off the electricity grid where poverty runs deep. http://www.ungei.org/news/247_2846.html For 23 year old Nguyen Thu Hie from Toan Thang, Vietnam, making a decision about employment is not easy. It's not the question of what to do that preoccupies her, but the prospect of paid employment itself - whether to work or to stay at home. http://www.ungei.org/news/index_2843.html Britain will help up to a million of the poorest girls in the world go to school, the Deputy Prime Minister announced today. http://www.ungei.org/news/kenya_2842.html Dekha Mohamed Noor, 15, has not seen her family for more than a month. At the end of July, after schools closed for the August holidays, they sent her to live with a relative in Garissa, a bustling commercial hub 165 km west of her home village, Modogashe. http://www.ungei.org/news/247_2840.html Three years ago, Camfed launched an innovative program to empower young women entrepreneurs in Zambia, in partnership with the 10,000 Women initiative and the University of Cambridge. http://www.ungei.org/news/index_2836.html Gender equality in education is a primary concern of the World Declaration on Education for All. http://www.ungei.org/news/247_2829.html To Educate a Girl, a documentary film supported by the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), introduces a pressing global issue: the struggles girls around the world face daily to get an education. To Educate a Girl looks at just a few children and youth in two countries, Uganda and Nepal, but the issue is present worldwide http://www.ungei.org/news/index_2835.html Today, the Afghan Ministry of Finance signed an agreement with the World Bank for a grant of $50 million from the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF). http://www.ungei.org/news/247_2834.html The consultant, in dialogue with the KMWG and UNGEI Secretariat, will be responsible for proposing and developing an overall knowledge management strategy for UNGEI, including budget and timeline for implementation. http://www.ungei.org/news/afghanistan_2830.html New classrooms, chairs and desks mean better education at Shirino High School, one of the schools renovated and refurbished with funds from the Government of Japan as part of its '1,000 Classrooms' initiative http://www.ungei.org/news/cameroon_2824.html Cameroon's national efforts in accelerating progress in girls' education got a major boost with the launch of the "My Education, My Future" initiative on 4 May.