Education and Gender Equality Programme Insights Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

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Girls’ Education in South Asia

19/12/2006

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Girls' education

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Because of deep-rooted gender inequalities, and because of the large population of South Asia, the region has the highest number of out-of-school girls in the world. This paper outlines some of the issues confronting practitioners, policy makers, and researchers in girls’ education in South Asia, and explores what they can do to move towards high-quality […]

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Beyond the Mainstream: Education for nomadic and pastoralist girls and boys

19/12/2005

4 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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This paper illustrates the challenges involved in providing good-quality gender-equitable education for children who are beyond the reach of mainstream, formal education. It focuses on children of nomadic and pastoralist households, identifying specific issues in providing schooling for them, and drawing on lessons from approaches and initiatives by various agencies (government and non-government). The paper […]

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Making it Happen: Political will for gender equality in education

19/12/2005

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Why do some countries succeed in promoting gender parity and equality in education while others do not? The answer often given is ‘political will’. All too often, however, no further explanation is offered. There has been little effort to understand why governments are unwilling or unable to change their policies and priorities to achieve equal […]

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Developing Capacity to Achieve Gender Equality in Education

19/12/2005

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Failure to achieve gender equality in education is often blamed on ‘weak capacity’. This paper illustrates the ways in which individual, organisational, and institutional capacity all play important roles in producing positive results for girls. It is essential to recognise that these different forms of capacity are related, in order to prevent the disappearance of […]

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Girls’ Education in Africa

19/12/2005

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Girls' education

Overview

Sub-Saharan Africa has some huge problems to resolve if it is to achieve gender equality in education, and fulfil the Millennium Development Goals related to education and gender. Conversely, the region also has some of the most innovative and enterprising examples of initiatives that promote gender equality in education. This paper focuses on sub-Saharan Africa […]

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Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Education

05/12/2005

4 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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In the mid-1980s, the Australian government embarked on the first initiative to analyse government budgets from a gender perspective. In 1995, South Africa and the Philippines became the second and third countries to attempt gender-responsive budget exercises. By 2003, there had been similar initiatives in more than sixty countries. This paper uses the gender-response budgeting […]

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Beyond Access for Girls and Boys: How to achieve good-quality, gender-equitable education

01/12/2005

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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This is the first of nine papers in a series on Education and Gender Equality, which have been developed from the work of the Beyond Access: Gender, Education, and Development, project.1 The focus of the series is on how to ensure not only equal access to a basic education for boys and girls, but that […]

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Gender Equality in Schools

01/12/2005

4 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper discusses the content and delivery of education and how it can reflect and reproduce gender inequalities. Girls’ and boys’ learning and interaction with each other, and the teacher, are influenced by ways of teaching, the content of the curriculum, and relations within the classroom. The paper considers these aspects of education provision – […]

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Gender Equality and Adult Basic Education

01/12/2005

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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This paper highlights the fact that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) do not directly address the issue of adult basic education and literacy, in spite of these being essential for achieving the Millennium targets. It explores the potential of adult basic education with gender equality to be transformatory for individuals, and for groups working to […]

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