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A global moment for local champions of girls’ education

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 11 Oct 2018 | by: Christina Kwauk | Story Source: Brookings ~ Go to Original Article On International Day of the Girl 2018, girls’ education leaders from around the world, including the Echidna Global Scholars and Alumni at...

Afghan teacher encourages children to never give up

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 8 Oct 2018 | by: ANADOLU AGENCY | Story Source: Daily Sabah, Life ~ Go to Original Article For Afghan teacher Sakena Yacoobi, her students are her driving force. Known for her courage and relentless struggle to educate young girls...

Museum on wheels: UNESCO Prize laureate brings science education to rural Peruvian girls

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 1 Oct 2018 | by: UNESCO | Story Source: UNESCO~ Go to Original Article “These are ordinary girls doing extraordinary things,” says Johanna Johnson, co-founder and director of MaCTec, laureate of the 2017 UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and...

UNESCO and CJ Group put the spotlight on girls’ education at #KCONLA2018

“A pencil is one of the most concrete thing that can empower a girl to learn when there is no schools nearby, only old textbooks available and few qualified teachers.” Kristen was one of the…

Lessons from a girls’ education advocacy initiative in Pakistan

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 6 Sep 2018 | by: Jamila Razzaq | Story Source: Brookings ~ Go to Original Article After completing the Echidna Global Scholar program at Brookings in 2015, I planned an advocacy program for the promotion of girls’ education in...

Reading solutions for girls: Combating social, pedagogical, and systemic issues for tribal girls’ multilingual education in India

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 4 Dec 2015 | by: Suman Sachdeva | Story Source: Brookings ~ Go to Original Article The current multilingual policy in India is insufficient for the acquisition of early grade reading skills by tribal girls. Unable to overcome the...

Education project from Afghanistan helping war-affected women and girls receives UNESCO Literacy Prize

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 30 Aug 2018 | by: UNESCO | Story Source: UNESCO ~ Go to Original Article Aid Afghanistan for Education (AAE), has been awarded one of this year’s five UNESCO International Literacy Prizes, for its efforts in providing learning...

Why do Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas have such a high gender gap in education?

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 31 Jul 2018 | by: Sumbal Naveed | Story Source: Brookings ~ Go to Original Article With the emergence of militants in the 1990s, the social, cultural, and economic structures of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in...

CJ-UNESCO Education Camp empowers girls in STEM education

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 14 August 2018 | by: UNESCO | Story Source: UNESCO ~ Go to Original Article The CJ Group Donors Camp held a first ever CJ-UNESCO Girls’ Education Camp for Future Scientists from 16 to 18 June 2018 in South Korea to foster girls...

India: Teaching boys to examine gender in patriarchal societies

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 23 August 2018 | by: Urvashi Sahni | Story Source: Brookings ~ Go to Original Article One group of global experts ranks India as the most dangerous country in the world for girls and women. According to the government, crime against...

Educating girls, the only road to achieving the SDGs

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 27 Jul 2018 by: IPS | Story Source: EcoBusiness ~ Go to Original Article Members of the girls club at Tutis Primary School in Ethiopia. Image: Unicef Ethiopia, CC BY 2.0 International bodies call for support to educate girls, as...

Pakistan: The power of female education

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 15 Aug 2018 | By: Tehreem Hussain | Story Source: The Express Tribune ~ Go to Original Article The newly elected government has many challenges to deal with. One of the areas that beckon immediate priority is on health and education...

How a Stereotype-Smashing Teen Founded the First All-Girl Muslim Robotics Team

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 31 Jul 2018 | By: Wendy McMahon | Story Source: EdSurge ~ Go to Original Article What can a 15-year-old from Chino Hills, CA do to help break down barriers and smash stereotypes? Zaina Siyed answered that question by creating the...

Why a gender perspective is important for early childhood educators in China

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 13 Aug 2018 | By: Jin Chi | Story Source: Brookings (Blog) ~ Go to Original Article Gender stereotypes and cultural norms are the hardest to tackle when it comes to sustaining the impact of development interventions in China. In...

Improving education data to count minority girls in Peru

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 6 Aug 2018 | By: Eliana Villar Márquez | Story Source: Brookings (Education Plus Development) ~ Go to Original Article Afro Peruvians, a minority group roughly 8 percent of the population of Peru, has been invisible in modern...

Ten takeaways from the Girls Not Brides Global Meeting

Photo: Graham Crouch/Girls Not Brides (From Author Site URL) Date: 11 July 2018 | By: Lakshmi Sundaram| Story Source: Girls Not Brides (Blog) ~ Go to Original Article It was a joy to see almost 500 activists from over 70 countries come together at the recent Girls...

7 principles for empowering teachers to be architects of girls’ empowerment

Photo Credit: Brookings (From URL) Date: 18 July 2018 | By: Suman Sachdeva | Story Source: Brookings (Blog) ~ Go to Original Article There is an increasing realization among reformers, development workers, and feminists that education is the most significant and...

Not Educating Girls Costs Countries Trillions of Dollars, Says New World Bank Report

Photo Credit: UNESCO Bangkok Date: 11 July 2018 | By: World Bank | Story Source: World Bank (Press Release) ~ Go to Original Article WASHINGTON, July 11, 2018 – Limited educational opportunities for girls and barriers to completing 12 years of education cost...

Teach Girls Coding Skills with This Tool from Google

Photo Credit: Created by Creative Art - Freepik.com Date: 3 July 2018 | By: Educatorstechnology | Story Source: Educatorstechnology ~ Go to Original Article "Made with Code is an interesting coding project by Google to help teen girls learn coding. According to the...

3 steps to help policymakers measure equity in national education planning

Blog - June 25, 2018 by Pauline Rose, Benjamin Alcott, Ricardo Sabates and Rodrigo Torres As governments pursue Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) on education, with its strong focus on equity, are they embedding equity at the very heart of their national...

Factsheet: Breaking down barriers to gender equality and girls’ education

Global Partnership for Education, June 27, 2018 Increasing equity, gender equality and inclusion for all is one of GPE’s three goals in GPE 2020, GPE’s strategic plan for 2016-2020, and critical to achieving the vision of SDG 4 for education. GPE’s Gender Equality...

Beyond Access: Exploring equity in early childhood learning and development

Two preschool girls during class at the Ruben Dario preschool in Matagalpa, Nicaragua. Credit: GPE/Carolina Valenzuela Global Partnership for Education Blog - June 14, 2018 by Lauren Pisani, Amy Jo Dowd and Frannie Noble A new report using data from Save the...

Did you know? There are just as many boys out of school as girls

Posted on 15 June 2018 by GEM Report (UNESCO) This Sunday is International Father’s Day. What better time than this to shine the education spotlight on boys. Because, I’ll bet many of you do not know that there are just as many boys out of school as girls. While...

Pakistan: 1,410 out of school kids enrolled in Nilor, Tarnol

By: The News Pakistan, June 8, 2018 Islamabad : Taleem Foundation (TF) Chairman Dr Zafar Iqbal Qadir Thursday said the organisation had enrolled around 1,410 Out of School Children (OOSCs) in its Nilor and Tarnol sectors under Girls Right to Education Programme (GREP)...

UK (DFID) boosts education program for marginalized girls

By Sophie Edwards // 11 June 2018 // Devex ^A girl in primary school in Ethiopia. Photo by: © UNICEF Ethiopia / 2018 / Mulugeta Ayene / CC BY-NC-ND LONDON — The United Kingdom has revealed details of its plans to expand an innovative funding stream to help keep...

Afghanistan: HRW Warns Of Education Crisis As Girls Drop Out Of School

By: Tolo News (Afghanistan), 14 June 2018 Human Rights Watch has said the world is looking away as an education crisis involving girls grips Afghanistan. The World Bank, along with the Afghan government and its donors, should use its new education program to...

UNICEF Releases Afghanistan Country Study: A global initiative on out-of-school children: All children in school and learning

This study, part of the Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children launched by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Institute for Statistics (UNESCO UIS), seeks to identify the barriers...

$3 billion pledged for girls education at G7, delighting Malala

PTI|Updated: Jun 10, 2018, 12.55 PM IST from The Economic Times (India) The funds gives "young women in developing countries the opportunity to pursue careers instead of early marriage and child labor," Malala wrote on Twitter. Pledges worth nearly USD 3 billion...

K-POP idol group Wanna One joins UNESCO’s efforts to promote girls’ education

UNESCO Bangkok, 5 June 2018 From 11 to 31 March 2018, Wanna One, a popular K-POP idol group in South Korea and Asia, encouraged its fans to participate in the UNESCO-CJ Strategic Partnership for Girls’ Education. The idol group was the finalist of an audition...

Non-formal girls’ life skills programming: Implications for policy and practice

Christina Kwauk, Amanda Braga, Helyn Kim, Kendra Dupuy, Sosina Bezu, and Are Knudsen | Brookings | Friday, June 8, 2018 For marginalized girls in developing countries whose life outcomes are threatened by poverty and gender-based discrimination, life skills education...