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  Barriers to Girls' Education: Strategies and Interventions

  2002

  This resource from the 'Teachers Talking about Learning' initiative of UNICEF provides a comprehensive overview of barriers to girls' education.
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  What Works in Girls? Education: Evidence and Policies from the Developing World

  Council on Foreign Relations, 2004

  This paper summarises the most promising approaches to increasing girls' enrolment and educational quality. It also presents a wide range of data strongly supporting the need for governments and other stakeholders to invest in girls' education. It is aimed at policymakers and their staff and provides a list of 'what works' to educate girls, namely:
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  Girls' Education: Towards a Better Future for All

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This paper describes DFID's planned actions to support work towards the education and gender Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
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  Gender, Education and Training

  Oxfam, 1998

  This collection of articles by development workers and researchers focuses on learning opportunities for women offered by education and training.
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  Evaluation of DFID Development Assistance: Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, Phase II Thematic Evaluation: Education

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This is one of a number of papers written in preparation for a full DFID evaluation of its gender equality work. It reviews the framework, country commitments and multilateral cooperation in the field of education - and outlines the reasons for failure to reach parity in primary education by a large number of countries in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
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  The Millennium Development Goals A Feminist Development Economics Perspective

  2004

  Why is it important to analyse the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Progress Reports through a gender lens? What can feminist economics tell us about how to make progress on gender equality through the MDGs? MDG 3, to Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women, has as its target the elimination of gender disparity in education.
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  Towards Universal Primary Education: Investments, Incentives, and Institutions

  Millennium Project, 2005

  The reality is that many countries will miss the 2005 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of gender parity in primary education. What could improve the chance of meeting the 2015 Goals? This report from the Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality offers a set of interventions that countries can choose from to help provide universal access to high-quality education.
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  Advance social watch report 2005: unkept promises

  Social Watch, 2005

  How well are governments progressing towards achieving their promises of eradicating poverty and reaching gender equality as stated in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? According to this report these promises are largely unmet and progress is either very slow or non-existent.
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  Millennium Development Goals: Gender Factsheet

  Department for International Development, UK, 2004

  This factsheet provides an overview of how the Department for International Development, UK (DFID) is working to address Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 3, 'Promote gender equality and empower women'.
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  The economic advancement of women in Jordan: a country gender assessment

  World Bank, 2005

  Over the past decades, Jordan has achieved impressive results on a host of social indicators, including the bridging of gender gaps in education. Yet, women's participation in the economic sphere has not kept pace with these impressive gains, mainly due to a host of barriers that women face in accessing opportunities in the public sphere.

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