Partnership, participation and power for gender equality in education
Abstract
This publication was prepared as part of the work of the committee overseeing the planning for UNGEI鈥檚 E4 conference The E4 Conference: Engendering Empowerment: Education and Equality, Dakar, Senegal 17th-20th May 2010. Although, over the last ten years, children around the world have had increased opportunities to attend school and benefit from education, nearly a billion people still receive little or no education. The majority are women and girls who face gender inequalities in many areas of their lives. E4 is part of a world-wide mobilisation of partnerships to realise the rights of girls and women to education and training and address the gender inequalities that prevent initiatives from reaching their full potential to transform societies. E4 brings together activists of all types鈥攑ractitioners on the ground, national and international policy makers, researchers鈥攚ho work on gender and education. Together we will engage with each other tackling the question of partnership, participation and power for gender equality in education and addressing the E4 themes of 鈥楨ngendering Empowerment: Education and Equality鈥�. Through presentations, papers, talks, video conversations, and e-discussions we will review ten years of the work of UN Girls鈥� Education Initiative (UNGEI) and other organisations concerned with gender and education and bring more voices into the conversation to deepen understanding of policies and practices in education that can support gender equality and the empowerment of women. This situation analysis, 鈥楶artnership, participation and power for gender equality in education鈥�, was prepared for the E4 conference. It gives an overview of what has been achieved in the past decade, and points to ways in which inadequate attention to inequali-ties in power and obstacles to participation have meant the important partnerships established cannot yet fully reach their potential without additional mobilisation of analysis and action.
Citation
Institute of Education, University of London, 26 pp.
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