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    Gender Equality in Basic Education

    2002
    This document provides policy-makers in UNESCO and its member states with guidelines for the development and reinforcement of their national plans and programs designed to achieve the objectives of the Dakar Framework for Action.
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    Mainstreaming Gender Equality in Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps): Case Studies in Education

    Cambridge Education Consultants, 2000
    This study was aimed to produce practical guidelines on good practice in mainstreaming gender into the planning and implementation of education SWAps. SWAps are a move away from project-focused approaches in educational development and the 'islands of excellence' that these entail, towards the provision of technical assistance within a coherent sector policy.
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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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    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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    Partnerships for girls’ education

    Oxfam, 2005
    The idea of partnerships - involving multinational donors, governments, international non-government organisations, the private sector, civil society, and local communities - is increasingly current in debates about development. They are widely seen as the most effective way to achieve sustainable economic and social benefits for the poorest people.
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    Why eat green cucumbers at the time of dying?: women’s literacy and development in Nepal

    Education Sector, UNESCO, 2000
    Why should people take on new literacy practices when they feel they are able to communicate adequately? Is 'traditional' literacy the key to women's empowerment? In Nepal, as elsewhere, there has been an explosion of literacy programmes due to the popular perception that this is the case. This report questions whether such programmes meet women's needs from the point of view of participants.

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