Global Platform for Gender Equality and Girls’ and Women’s Empowerment in and through Education
Global Platform for Gender Equality and Girls’ and Women’s Empowerment in and through Education
Introduction
The Global Platform aims to drive transformative leadership, accountability, innovation, data and financing to advance gender equality and girls’ and women’s empowerment in and through education.
The Platform is a multi-stakeholder forum that includes government representatives, leaders, partners, champions, and a broad array of stakeholders and activists.
Objectives
The expected outcomes of the Platform are:
- accountability: education stakeholders are equipped with data and evidence to hold partners accountable on progress against their commitments on gender equality in and through education
- action: leaders and decision-makers take proactive and transformative measures to address the key barriers to gender equality in and through education, focusing on the most marginalized
- learning: high-impact transformative solutions and learning on gender equality in and through education are documented, evaluated and shared
The Platform will be operational for 4 years, until 2026.
Strategies and activities
Global Platform members are convened annually between 2023 and 2026 to track action against the gender-related TES and other commitments, identify gaps in service provision and finance, and drive evidence-informed action – with a focus on the most marginalized.
Key activities are:
- global, regional and country-level monitoring of educational participation, progress and outcomes through a gender lens
- products: global dashboard, annual global report
- advocacy and capacity development to promote gender-transformative education policies, plans, management information systems, curricula, learning resources and teacher training
- products: national reports
- generation and sharing of evidence of high-impact solutions to advance gender equality in and through education
- product: evidence hub
Special attention is paid to promoting ‘South-South’ learning and sharing, and to supporting civil society activists.
Participating countries
- Countries with strong gender disparities in educational participation and outcomes, and strong leadership and examples of scalable actions on gender equality in and through education.
- Major donors championing gender equality and girls’ and women’s empowerment in and through education
Conveners
The Platform is convened by UNESCO and UNICEF.
Partners
In addition to governments, UNESCO and UNICEF, key partners include:
- civil society organizations (in alphabetical order: Brookings, Echidna Giving, Equal Measures 2030, Graça Machel Trust, International Disability Alliance, Malala Fund, Obama Foundation, Plan International, Population Council, Technovation – list not exhaustive)
- multilateral organizations (in alphabetical order: African Union, Global Partnership for Education, UNAIDS, UNFP, UNGEI, UN Women, World Bank, World Humanitarian Forum – list not exhaustive)
How to engage
The Platform is open to participation by all governments, development partners and civil society organizations that are committed to the Transforming Education Summit’s Call to Action on Gender Equality and Girls’ and Women’s Empowerment in and through Education. Contact: gender.ed@unesco.org
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