Event UNGA High-level Meeting to Celebrate 25th Anniversary of Beijing Women’s Conference This high-level meeting of the General Assembly will focus on the overall theme, ‘Accelerating the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls’
Event Policies and Strategies Guiding the Implementation of Gender Transformative Covid‐19 Recovery Plans for the Education Sector in Sub‐Saharan Africa Please join us for this policy dialogue, which will bring together representatives from global and pan‐African institutions as well as government bodies in order to share perspectives on what it takes to create a conducive environment for gender transformative approaches to help the education sector recover and become more resilient.
Resource COVID-19 Aftershocks: Access Denied This report spotlights one particular vulnerability that is known to be exacerbated by school closures in times of crisis and risks the continued education of vulnerable children: teenage pregnancy, which threatens to block a million girls across Sub-Saharan Africa from returning to school.
Resource In Solidarity With Girls: Gender and education in crisis This policy brief series draws from a series of intergenerational dialogues on gender and education in crisis.
Resource Reforzar la igualdad: Guía para el regreso de las niñas a la escuela La guía proporciona información específica para garantizar la continuidad del aprendizaje durante los cierres escolares, así como planes integrales, oportunos y fundados en datos empíricos para reabrir escuelas de forma segura, con perspectiva de género, adaptada a las necesidades de los niños, y que satisfaga las necesidades de las niñas más marginadas.
Resource Building back equal: Girls back to school guide The guide provides targeted inputs to ensure continuity of learning during school closures, and comprehensive, timely and evidence-based plans for reopening schools in a way that is safe, gender-responsive and child-friendly, and meets the needs of the most marginalised girls
Resource Reconstruire l’égalité : Guide de rescolarisation des filles Le guide fournit des contributions ciblées pour assurer la continuité de l’apprentissage pendant les fermetures d’écoles ainsi que des plans complets et opportuns basés sur les données pour rouvrir les écoles de manière sûre, en tenant compte des questions de genre, ainsi qu’en répondant aux besoins des enfants et des filles les plus marginalisées.
Event Masculinities, Marginalization, Militarism (virtual course, 6 half-days) From academia to practical programming, gender has often been equated with “biological sex” and been used as a synonym for women. This undermines the real analytical and emancipatory potential of gender analysis. This course provides counterweight to this tendency, highlighting the role of masculinities in conflict and peacebuilding.
Resource Inclusive approaches to drop out and retention in low-resource settings This guidance note shares lessons learned from DFID’s Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC)3 programme on retention systems that work to provide visibility and support to marginalised girls in challenging contexts who are at risk of drop out from education.
Resource Education Needs Assessment Report: Adolescent and Youth Women and Girls in the Rohingya Refugee Camps Dan Church Aid (DCA) and UN Women (UNW) carried out an education needs assessment between February 26 and March 19, 2020 with the aim of understanding the priority needs for Rohingya adolescent and youth girls and women living in the refugee camps and makeshift settlements in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
