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'Scaling up' Good Practices in Girls' Education
Paris: UNESCO 2005
This publication focuses on the key issues to address and strategies to put in place in order to meet international targets and national goals for universalizing girls’ access to, retention in and completion of quality education. It focuses on the issue of accelerating action through ‘scaling up’ successful interventions, or components of interventions that are amenable to replication.
Paris: UNESCO, 2004
With the world two years away from the date by which the Education for All (EFA) goal on gender parity is to be achieved, this report focuses on progress made towards the goal’s implementation. The report makes the case for achieving parity and equality in education and looks into factors holding girls back, as well as policies and measures to address these obstacles. It argues that it is in the interest of all states and peoples to remove the gender gap and should be a top priority of education programmes.
Guidelines for Implementing, Monitoring and Evaluating Gender Responsive EFA Plans
UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2004, 40 p.
ISBN: 92-9223-009-3
A revision of and follow-up to the Guidelines for Preparing Gender-responsive EFA Plans published in March 2002 to assist planning teams to implement gender-responsive EFA plans. In this revision, more emphasis is placed on Implementing, Monitoring and Evaluating EFA policies.
UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2003. 101p.
This report reviews the activities carried out by selected CLCs in various countries of the Asia-Pacific region as examples of good practice in the promotion of gender equality in basic and lifelong education.
Bangkok: GENIA, UNESCO Bangkok, October 2003, 8p.
This is the report of a workshop under the Scandinavian-funded programme on building capacities of Ministries of Education to implement gender responsive education policies. The main purpose of this report is to document the key outcomes of the workshop. Appendices include some of the handouts, resource materials and presentations from the workshop, as well as participants’ evaluations of the effectiveness of the proceedings and information received.
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D: Presentation on the Regional Project
E: Presentation by the Hon. Ruth Kavuma, FAWE
F: Presentation on Gender Mainstreaming in Cambodia
H: Presentation on Gender, AIDS and Education
I: Job Description of a Gender Focal Point
Issues paper on Inclusion of Gender Perspectives in Family Education
Grieshaber, Susan
This paper will provide the basis from which to develop the core content of a training module on Inclusion of Gender Perspective in Family Education. The paper provides this basis by looking at the situation of gender in Asia, reviewing the existing training and learning materials and programmes for families and the promotion of gender, and outlining the essential issues and suggested activities to be contained in the training module to be developed within the framework of the project.
Guidelines for Preparing Gender Responsive EFA Plans
UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2002, 23p.
These guidelines have been prepared to assist you and your 'team' to produce EFA plans that are gender responsive. The document aims to raise awareness about a number of aspects that you need to consider in order to produce plans leading to the achievement of gender equality in education. Further information and guidance regarding gender issues in education can be found in books and websites referred to at the back of this document. For general planning issues, please refer to the EFA Planning Guide, produced by UNESCO Bangkok.
Gender Equality in Classroom Instruction: Introducing Gender Training for Teachers in the Republic of Korea.
Bangkok: UNESCO Bangkok, 2006, 41 p.
ISBN 92-9223-078-66
Enhancing Women's Networking Through Cyber Mentoring: A Case Study from the Republic of Korea
Bangkok: UNESCO Bangkok, 2006, 30 p.
ISBN 92-9223-079-4
Women's/Gender Studies in Asia-Pacific
compiled and edited by Philip Bergstrom
Bangkok: UNESCO Bangkok. 2004, 376p.
ISBN 92-9223-034-4
This book is divided into two sections: the first contains background Country Papers, commissioned by Regional Advisor for Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific (RUSHSAP), that provide an overview of the history and current state of Women's/Gender Studies in five selected countries. The second section is for Country Institutional Reports, submitted by participants to the consultation, that reflect the history and current state of Women's/Gender Studies in their institutions.
Women as Educators and Women's Education in E-9 countries
Morales Garza, S UNESCO 2000.
The study stresses the role of women as educators in the family, in schools, in the community and in public life in the E-9 countries, and shows the efforts made in such countries for the education of women to be
top priority for national action. Reference is made to local, provincial and national initiatives and programmes.
The World's women 2010 - Trends and statistics
Multilingual Report Translations
The World’s Women 2010: Trends and Statistics is the fifth issue of The World’s Women and is being produced to coincide with the first-ever World’s Statistics Day, 20.10.2010. The current issue highlights the differences in the status of women and men in eight areas – population and families, health, education, work, power and decision-making, violence against women, environment and poverty. Analyses are based mainly on statistics from international and national statistical sources.
The World’s Women 2010 shows that progress towards gender equality has been made in some areas, such as school enrolment, health and economic participation. At the same time the report shows that much more needs to be done to close the gender gap in critical areas such as power and decision-making and violence against women.
For Her It's the Big Issue: Putting Women at the Centre of Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene
Lack of basic sanitation and safe water is an acute problem for the women and girls who live in poor and overcrowded urban slums and in the rural areas of the developing world. Many have to wait to utilize sanitation and cleaning facilities until dark, confronting the risk of harassment and sexual assault.
School attendance by girls is lower and dropout rates are higher in schools that have no access to safe water and no separate toilet facilities for boys and girls. Thus water supply, sanitation and hygiene plays an important role in Gender and Education issues.
OXFAM Education and Gender Series
These 9 papers on education and gender contribute to improving policy development and practice by presenting new learning and examples of good practice in a clear and straightforward manner, with recommendations for action. The papers are of high quality and cover the following topics:
1. Beyond Access for Girls and Boys: how to achieve good-quality, gender-equitable education;
2. Gender Equality in Schools;
3. Gender Equality and Adult Basic Education;
4. Beyond the Mainstream: education for nomadic and pastoralist girls and boys;
5. Making it Happen: political will for gender equality in education;
6. Developing Capacity to Achieve Gender Equality in Education;
7. Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Education;
8. Girls’ Education in Africa;
9. Girls' Education in South Asia.
Incorporating Gender into your NGO
Network Learning, 2006
This manual tries to explain the basic concepts and definitions on gender, followed by ‘what to do and how to do it’, both within and outside the organization, in order to scan all aspects with a gender sensitive eye. It offers an awareness of wrong concepts and influencing factors.
Levelling the Playing Field: Giving Girls an Equal Chance for Basic Education – Three Countries’ Efforts
World Bank, 1996
This booklet examines the efforts of Bangladesh, Malawi, and Pakistan to increase the number of girls in school. The document addresses several issues, including how governments grapple with the deep-seated cultural, institutional, and political factors that underlie the gender disparity in access to school, how parents and communities feel about these attempts, and what impact the reform efforts have on the people involved in managing and running the school system. It also follows the lives of some of the girls who have benefited from the reforms.
The Politics of Women's Education: Perspectives from Asia, Africa, and Latin America
Michigan University Press, 1996
A collection of essays that reveal the complex changes in women's education throughout the world and together offer the first comprehensive assessment of what has been attempted, what remains to be done, and what the options are for reform.
