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Background materials, reports and advocacy papers

‘Scaling Up’ Good Practices in Girls’ Education (2005)
This report focuses on strategies for meeting international targets and national goals for universalizing girls’ access to, retention in and completion of quality education.
“Don’t Forget Us”: The Education and Gender-Based Violence Protection Needs of Adolescent Girls from Darfur in Chad (2005)
2005 and Beyond: Accelerating girls’ education in South Asia (2005)
Report of a Meeting
60 Million Girls Missing an Education (2005)
A Scorecard on Gender Equality and Girls' Education in Asia 1990-2000 (2004)
Advocacy Brief
A Fair Chance: Attaining gender equality in basic education by 2005 (2003)
Briefing paper
Accelerating Progress on Girls' Education: Towards robust and sustainable outcomes
Strategy paper
Beyond Access: Transforming policy and practice for gender equality in education (2005)
Book
Changes in Girl's Lives: Malawi from 1990 to 1997 (1999)
Departmental Working Paper/Country Study
Children Having Children (2004)
State of the World Mothers 2004
Creating an Enabling Environment for the Advancement of Women and Girls (2006)
A Briefing Paper to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women at its 50th Session
Denied a Future? (2001)
4 Volume Set about the right to education of Roma/Gypsy and Traveller children in Europe
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Girls' right to education (2006)
Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Mr. V. Muñoz Villalobos
Educate Girls: Fight AIDS (2005)
Newsletter
Educating Girls in South Asia: Promising Approaches (2006)
One of a series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia.
Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2005 - The Quality Imperative
Multimedia report
Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2006 - Literacy for Life
Multimedia report
Establishing Child Friendly Schools in 6 Provinces (2005)
Field Work Report
Evaluation of the Balochistan Rural Girls' Fellowship Program - Will rural families pay to send girls to school?
Research paper
Facing the Future Together (2004)
Report of the Secretary-General's Task Force on Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa.
Failing Our Children: Barriers to the right to education (2005)
Report
Gender Achievements and Prospects in Education (2005)
The GAP report (Part One)
Girls Can’t Wait: Why girls’ education matters, and how to make it
Briefing paper for the UN Beijing +10 Review and Appraisal
Girls' Education: Towards a better future for all
Brochure
Global School Feeding Report 2005
Report
Human Development Report (2005)
International Cooperation at a Crossroads: Aid, trade and security
Progress for Children No. 2 (2005)
A report card on gender parity and primary education
Millennium Development Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education
Fact sheet
State of World Population 2005
The Promise of Equality: Gender Equity, Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals
Taking Action: Achieving gender equality and empowering women (2005)
Task Force on Education and Gender Equality Report
The Challenge of Achieving Gender Parity in Education
Statistical Review
The Power and Promise of Girls' Education (2005)
State of the World's Mothers 2005
The State of the World’s Children 2004: Girls, education and development (2003)
Report
The State of the World's Children 2006: Excluded and Invisible
Multimedia Report
Toward Universal Primary Education: Investments, incentives and institutions (2005)
Task Force on Education and Gender Equality Report
What Works in Girls' Education: Evidence and policies from the developing world (2004)
Report
Winning People’s Will for Girl Child Education (2006)
Case study on Girls’ Education in Nepal. Action-research project.
Preventing HIV in Young Women and Girls (2006)
Backgrounder
Backgrounder - Education (2005)
Role of Men and Boys in Promoting Gender Equality (2004)
Advocacy Brief
Impact of Incentives to Increase Girls' Access to and Retention in Basic Education (2005)
Advocacy Brief
Accelerating Efforts to Achieve Universal Basic Education: A Critical Component of the Global AIDS Response (2005)
Advocacy Brief on Education and AIDS
Review of the Evidence: Girls’ Education and HIV Prevention CD-ROM (2006)
CD-ROM of policy documents, case studies, reports, tools, curricula and other materials, aimed to expand the evidence base on the link between girls’ education and HIV prevention.
Getting Girls Out of Work and Into School (2006)
Policy Brief
The Impact of Women Teachers on Girls' Education (2006)
Advocacy Brief
Education and Gender Series (2005)
Oxfam Programme Insights
World Hunger Series 2006, Hunger and Learning Overview (2006)
WFP annual publication aimed at policymakers which focuses on practical strategies to end hunger.
White Paper on International Development, 'Eliminating world poverty: Making governance work for the poor' (2006)
Consultation paper with contributions from over 600 MPs, organisations and people, written by DFID in consultation with non-governmental organisations (NGOs), Whitehall and other partners.
Promoting women's rights through Sharia in Northern Nigeria (2006)
This report is part of a project that seeks to promote respect for the rights of Muslim women in Northern Nigeria through Sharia.
Teachers and Educational Quality: Monitoring Global Needs for 2015
UNESCO Institute for Statistics report
Children Out of School: Measuring Exclusion from Primary Education
Report
Girls, Educational Equity and Mother Tongue-based Teaching (2005)
Advocacy paper
Making Schools Safe for Girls: Combating Gender-Based Violence in Benin (2004)
Report
Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, Phase II Thematic Evaluation: Education (2005)
Working paper
The end of child labour: Within reach (2006)
Global Report under the Follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, 2006
Reaching the Girls in South Asia: Differentiated Needs and Responses in Emergencies (2006)
One of a series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia.
What’s the Difference?: Confronting Factors that Affect Gender Equality in Education
Poverty and economic vulnerability in South Asia: Does it impact girls' education? (2008)
This series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia grew out of collaboration between the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia and the newly formed UN Girls’ Education Initiative, and had its genesis at a Regional Meeting on Accelerating Girls’ Education in South Asia in February 2005.
Gender mainstreaming: Does it happen in education in South Asia? (2008)
This series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia grew out of collaboration between the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia and the newly formed UN Girls’ Education Initiative, and had its genesis at a Regional Meeting on Accelerating Girls’ Education in South Asia in February 2005.
Progress in girls' education: The challenge of gender equality in South Asia (2008)
This series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia grew out of collaboration between the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia and the newly formed UN Girls’ Education Initiative, and had its genesis at a Regional Meeting on Accelerating Girls’ Education in South Asia in February 2005.
From parity to equality in girls' education: How are we doing in South Asia? (2008)
This series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia grew out of collaboration between the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia and the newly formed UN Girls’ Education Initiative, and had its genesis at a Regional Meeting on Accelerating Girls’ Education in South Asia in February 2005.
Improving the Education Response to HIV and AIDS (2008)
This report synthesises case study exercises undertaken to examine the quality, effectiveness and coordination of the education sector’s response to the HIV epidemic in four countries – Jamaica, Kenya, Thailand and Zambia.
Learning from Girls’ Education as an Organizational Priority (2008)
This report highlights themes of particular importance to basic education, especially for girls, as emphasized in the first MTSP. The report also discusses briefly the broader role and functions of UNICEF studies and evaluations in education related to these priority areas, as requested in the original terms of reference.
Making Schools Inclusive (2008)
This book is about how non-governmental organisations (NGOs) can help school systems in developing countries become more inclusive. It shares experience of developing tools and approaches that have improved education for the most excluded children in society.
Girls Count (2008)
One person in eight is a girl or young woman age 10–24. Young people are the fastest growing segment of the population in developing countries, and their welfare is a fundamental input for key economic and social outcomes -- including the size and competitiveness of tomorrow's labor force, future economic growth, improved governance, and healthy civil societies.
A Human Rights-Based Approach to Education For All (2007)
A framework for the realization of children’s right to education and rights within education
The Road Not Traveled (2008)
Education Reform in the Middle East and North Africa
Global School Report 2008: No Excuses!
A global report card ranking governments efforts to achieve Education for All.
INEE Case Studies
The INEE Secretariat and the Women’s Commission are very pleased to inform you of the overwhelming response we have had to the call for case studies on Teacher Compensation.
Forced marriage of the girl child (2008)
Report by the UN Commission on the Status of Women
New Partnerships for EFA: Building on Experience (2008)
A global review
FAWE Strategic Plan 2008-2012
In the last decade, significant steps have been made towardsachieving gender equality in education across Africa. Many sub-Saharan Africa countries have now concrete interventions to ensure free and compulsory primary education for all.
Toolkit for Mainstreaming HIV and AIDS in the Education Sector: Guidelines for Development Cooperation Agencies
This toolkit aims to help education staff from development cooperation agencies, including both development and humanitarian-oriented multilateral and bilateral agencies as well as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other civil society organizations, to support the process of mainstreaming HIV and AIDS into education sector planning and implementation.
The Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2008
“Education for All by 2015: Will we make it?” asks the title of the 2008 edition of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, launched on 29 November at the United Nations in New York.
Making UNGEI Work: Lessons from Four African Countries
Evaluation report
Education for some more than others?
examines how far the trend towards increased disparities in education has continued in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The Human Rights Education Action Plan
Following the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004), the plan defines five keys to success of human rights education.
Creating a safe and welcoming school
Attempts to create schools that provide quality education for young people are many. Yet, the pursuit for the latest technological advances for increased effectiveness in education, neglect the need for a school to be a safe and welcoming place for children to learn and grow.
Exclusion, Gender and Education: Case Studies from the Developing World
This new book, edited by Lewis and Lockheed, includes the more detailed technical analysis and the country case studies on which much of Inexcusable Absence is based. The technical analysis addresses the role of ethnic and linguistic heterogeneity in explaining differences across countries in school enrollment.
Behind the Screen (2007)
An inside look at gender inequality in Asia
“Will you listen?” Young voices from conflict zones (2007)
Report
Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict (2007)
Report - 10 year strategic review of Graça Machel's 1996 study on children in armed conflict
Accelerating Girl’s Education In Yemen: Rethinking Policies in Teachers’ Recruitment and School Distribution
Policy paper
Gender and Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean: An Annotated Bibliography
A comprehensive bibliography of existing research on gender and education in the Commonwealth Caribbean
UNGEI Regional Updates
Brochure
Young Champions for Education (2007)
2007 Training of Trainers Workshop Report
Advocacy Kit for Promoting Multilingual Education: Including the Excluded (2007)
The Asia and Pacific region is characterized by rich ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity. At the same time, however, this diversity makes educating children from different backgrounds a major challenge.
Teaching Well? Educational Reconstruction Efforts and support to teachers in postwar Liberia (2007)
At a time when the development of a robust and relevant education system for Liberia is so critical, and the IRC’s education interventions are being scaled up with a particular focus on teachers, teacher support and development, this study provides important insight on teachers’ lives and the conditions in which they work.
Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2007 - Strong foundations
Multimedia report. Theme: Early childhood care and education.
The Millennium Development Goals Report (2007)
Report
Global Monitoring Report 2007: Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile States (2007)
Global report
World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation (2006)
World Bank report which focuses on the theme of youth
Debt and Education (2007)
Briefing paper, produced by the Jubilee Debt Campaign
Global School Feeding Report 2006 (2006)
Report
Last in Line, Last in School (2007)
Report by Save the Children that identifies key areas of policy and practise that need to change in order to give children in conflict-affected fragile states get an education.
Keeping the Promise: Five Benefits of Girls’ Secondary Education (2006)
Data and analysis on the importance of educating girls in developing countries
Girls’ schooling in Tanzania: the key to HIV/AIDS prevention? (2006)
From AIDS Care - Volume 18, Number 8 / November 2006, pp 863 - 871
Free, Quality Education for Every Afghan Child (2006)
Oxfam briefing paper
From the Ground Up: Education and Livelihoods in Southern Sudan (2007)
Report based on findings from a November 2006 assessment where the Women’s Commission looked at education and livelihood projects and opportunities for Southern Sudanese who are returning after decades of displacement.
Rapid Assessment of Learning Spaces in Southern Sudan (2006)
Report on the result of the Rapid Assessment of Learning Spaces (RALS) exercise in Southern Sudan, done in collaboration between the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) of the Government of Southern Sudan and UNICEF.
Girls' education: towards a better future for all -- Progress Report (2006)
A report charting progress made by DFID since it published its strategy for girl’s education, Girls’ Education: towards a better future for all in 2005.
Measuring gender inequality in education in South Asia (2006)
One of a series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia.
Mainstreaming gender for better girls' education: Policy and institutional issues (2006)
One of a series of papers aimed at promoting better education in South Asia.
Waiting Opportunities: Adolescent girls experiences of gender-based violence at schools (2006)
Research report
The Multi-Country Child-Friendly Schools for Africa Capacity Development Workshop II Report (2006)
Report on workshop held 21- 24 August 2006 at the Rovuma Hotel in Maputo, Mozambique
The Untapped Opportunity: How Public-Private Partnerships Can Advance Education for All (2006)
This report highlights 4 areas in which public-private partnerships can make investments that matter: entry, retention, learning and inequality.
Rewrite the Future (2006)
This report is part of Save the Children’s five-year Rewrite the Future education initiative, which seeks to help millions of children in conflict-affected areas gain access to and reap the current and future benefits of a quality education.
Girl Power: The Impact of Girls’ Education on HIV And Sexual Behaviour (2006)
Education and HIV Series 01
Girls, Women and HIV/AIDS in Eastern Africa (2006)
A desk review based on studying available literature on girls, women and HIV/AIDS in Eastern Africa.

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Background materials, reports and advocacy papers