Category Archives: Equity

Three ways to plan for equity during the coronavirus school closures

Posted on 25 March 2020 by GEM Report

By Stefania Giannini, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education and Suzanne Grant Lewis, UNESCO-IIEP Director From school closures and home confinement to travel bans, countries and municipalities are ramping up efforts to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. For … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster preparedness, emergencies, Equity, Out-of-school children, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, equity, learning, out of school, UNESCO | 17 Comments

The bottom ten countries for girls’ education

Posted on 9 March 2020 by GEM Report

The World Inequality Database in Education, WIDE, managed by the GEM Report and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, highlights the powerful influence of gender, combined with other factors such as ethnicity and location, over which people have little control but … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, parity, Uncategorized | Tagged Gender, gender parity, gender. equality, girls, girls' education, target 4.7 | 2 Comments

Gender gap in primary school enrolment has halved over past 25 years

Posted on 6 March 2020 by GEM Report

Sunday is International Women’s Day. The year 2020 is also the 25-year anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing in 1995), which culminated with the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a key global policy document on gender … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, Uncategorized | Tagged Gender, gender parity, gender. equality, girls' education, target 4.7 | Leave a comment

Education Progress – the GEM Report’s new online interactive tool exploring progress made towards SDG 4

Posted on 24 January 2020 by GEM Report

To mark International Education Day, the Global Education Monitoring Report has launched a new online interactive tool, Education Progress. Available in seven major languages, the site brings together data from various producers, notably the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, to explore … Continue reading →

Posted in access, data, Equality, Equity, Finance, Learning, monitoring, Quality of education, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged access, equity, Finance, learning, monitoring, quality, SDG 4 | 3 Comments

Internally Displaced Girls and Education in Yemen

Posted on 6 January 2020 by GEM Report

By YoumnaFathi Al-Aswadi, author of a background paper for the Arab States 2019 GEM Report on migration, displacement and education The protracted conflict in Yemen since March 2015 has resulted in significant human suffering. More than 3.65 million people have … Continue reading →

Posted in Arab States, Basic education, child marriage, Conflict, Equality, Equity, fragile states, Gender, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized | Tagged arab states 2019, child marriage, conflict, girls, houthi, yemen | Leave a comment

Mapping girls’ right to an education

Posted on 11 October 2019 by GEM Report

By Rolla Moumne, UNESCO Education Sector UNESCO’s Her Education Rights Atlas (HER Atlas) is designed to measure the degree of protection of girls’ and women’s education rights in national legal frameworks. Her Atlas was launched at the G7 France/UNESCO international … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, Uncategorized | Tagged Gender, gender parity, gender. equality, girls, girls' education | 1 Comment

Has the approach to inclusion changed over the years?

Posted on 12 September 2019 by GEM Report

It is 25 years since the Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on Special Needs Education endorsed the approach of inclusive schools and argued that regular schools should accommodate all children, regardless of their physical, intellectual, social, emotional, linguistic or … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Inclusion, LGBT, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, 2020 GEM Report, allmeansall, CRPD, incheon declaration, Inclusion, salamanca statement | Leave a comment

The Wrong Way to Educate Girls

Posted on 30 July 2019 by GEM Report

By Manos Antoninis Getting girls into classrooms remains hugely important in some of the world’s poorest countries, and it can be achieved with targeted measures, say, to make their daily commute safer. But balanced school enrollment numbers are only the … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged #SDG 4.5, equity, Gender, gender. equality, SDG 4 | 4 Comments

Over half of G7 aid to education goes to achieving gender equality

Posted on 5 July 2019 by GEM Report

Feeding into the theme on inequality of this year’s G7 Presidency, we have carried out a breakdown of G7 donors’ aid to education to show that 55% goes to achieving gender equality. France, which holds the G7 presidency, allocates the … Continue reading →

Posted in Developing countries, Equality, Equity, Gender, Inclusion, Uncategorized | Tagged cash transfers, donor aid, G7, g7 france, gender parity, gender-responsive planning, gender. equality | Leave a comment

Five steps to stamp out gender inequality in education

Posted on 5 July 2019 by GEM Report

The new Gender GEM Report released today at the G7 France – UNESCO International Conference shows that equal numbers of boys and girls are still not enrolled in a third of countries in primary, half in lower secondary, and three … Continue reading →