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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: In Solidarity with Girls: An intergenerational dialogue series
This month we are joining forces with partners to launch a series of intergenerational dialogues on gender and education in crisis. Through this series, global education leaders are engaging with youth as partners to understand how school closures are impacting young people’s lives as well as the innovative ways in which they are responding to this crisis.
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News: 2020 UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education: Nominations now accepted
Just launched: the 2020 UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education. Do you know an individual or organisation empowering girls and women through education? Learn how to nominate them for this year’s prize.
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News: New report: Transformative political leadership for girls’ educationLaunching today - new research reviewing global evidence on how political leadership can be leveraged for girls' education. The research is the latest to be published through the Leave No Girl Behind Campaign - a global call to action for 12 years of quality education for all girls.Read more >
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News: Leave No Girl Behind: a new wave of activism for girls' education
On International Day of Education, we join partners to unleash a new phase of activism for 12 years of quality education for all girls through the Leave No Girl Behind Campaign. With only ten years to achieve the 2030 Global Goals agenda, the clock is ticking. Are you with us?
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News: New publication: Ending School-Related Gender-Based ViolenceToday we launch a new publication featuring evidence-based approaches to preventing and responding to gender-based violence in schools. We urge all educationists to download a copy and join the global community working to end SRGBV.Read more >
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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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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.