Gender-Responsive and Equitable Approaches to Education for Girls and Boys (GREAT Education)

This project aims to achieve equitable quality education for girls and boys particularly the poorest and most vulnerable in developing countries as well as in conflict crisis-affected and humanitarian settings. This project supports the implementation of the goals and objectives described in UNGEI’s Strategic Directions 2018-2023 document. As a leader in gender equality and education UNGEI works to increase awareness and participation of decision-makers in gender-responsive education sector planning and increase the data available to support the need for gender-responsive quality education in low-income countries. Project activities include: (1) organizing online and in-person learning events; (2) engaging in participatory institutional capacity gender reviews of selected ministries of education leading to development and sharing of tools information models and other evidence-based approaches to gender-responsive education through online and other channels; (3) influencing national education actors to improve their delivery of gender-responsive education through advocacy and capacity building in education governance and leadership; and (4) increasing access to evidence-based approaches to strengthen gender-responsive education systems particularly for crisis- and conflict affected fragile and humanitarian settings.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) enhanced collective action and advocacy among a wide range of national regional and international education actors through events and online campaigns that target key stakeholders; (2) increased capacity for gender-responsive governance and leadership in education among national education stakeholders through a participatory gender review and learning events; and (3) increased access to evidence-based approaches including tools and guidance on best practice for building and strengthening gender-responsive education systems.