This guide is linked to the commitment of the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) to strengthen the progress of women and gender equality through a gender mainstreaming policy, consisting of integrating the gender dimension into all administrative and financial programmes and procedures. T...
This study examines the state of education in Turkey and its links with the country' s development, from a historical and gender perspective. Following the proclamation of theTurkish Republic, primary education was declared compulsory and this status was subsequently secured by Article 42 of the ...
The Gender Equality Initiative was launched by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to help governments to promote gender equality in terms of education, employment and entrepreneurship (the "3Es"). This document corresponds to the report submitted to the OECD Council...
This work is based on the findings of a conference on education, gender equality and women' s empowerment, organized by the World Bank in 2007. It presents an illustrative account of the challenges for educational development and provides strategic guidelines to make gender equality progress in e...
This document is a summary of the report on education in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region that reviews the history of educational development and its links with social and economic development. It addresses the following questions: Did the investments in education prepare countries ...
This report examines the schooling of girls in 80 developing countries, based on the conceptual framework known as the 4As. This framework, adopted by the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, declares the States' obligations to guarantee that education is: Available, ...
This report examines the challenges of the development of education in the Arab region and seeks to identify the possibilities of reforms in education. Its objective is to assess the impact of investment in education on the economic benefits. Thus, the report addresses three questions: 1) How muc...
In July 2008 the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research was commissioned by the government to set up a programme called JÄMI to support government agencies in their work on gender mainstreaming. The objective of this report is to present the conclusions and recommendations of the JÄMI ...
This report presents a compilation of statistics disaggregated by gender concerning the main childhood and adolescence stages in the developing world. It examines a selection of indicators currently available to measure the well-being and assess the rights of children from early childhood to youn...
This report summarizes the content of the World Development Report 2012 on ways of improving the life of girls and women throughout the world. It invites countries to draw more attention to gender inequalities in four key sectors: reducing mortality among women and removing the gaps in education;...
This platform is part of the Axis 1 "Strengthening the capacities of equality actors" of the Priority Solidarity Fund "Women for the future in the Mediterranean" funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in the framework of the project “Developing Women's Empowerment” labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean.
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