To build the capacity of technical, planning, managerial and executive staff to integrate gender into all stages of educational planning.
11th September to 24th November 2023.
In strengthening the implementation of the Gender at the Center Initiative (GCI), UNGEI and IIEP-UNESCO hosted the 4th GCI Alliance Board Meeting from March 28-30, 2023 in Dakar, Senegal.
2022 was a busy year for the Gender at the Center Initiative (GCI), with gender-responsive education planning activities taking place in several countries in the West African region as well as in Mozambique.
In the recent paper entitled Education and Skills for Women’s Integration into the Labour Market: A Comparative Analysis of Eight sub-Saharan African Countries, authors Carolina Alban Conto and Alessia Forti focus on eight sub-Saharan African countries –Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.
IIEP-UNESCO Dakar is co-piloting the Gender at the Centre Initiative (GCI). One of the objectives of the programme is to strengthen the capacity of eight African countries to transform their education systems in favour of gender equality.
How do you explain the large number of out-of-school children in West and central Africa?
The Gender at the Centre Initiative of UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning in Dakar (IIEP-UNESCO Dakar) is launching a new Francophone edition of its short course on Gender Responsive Educational Planning.
Since its launch in July 2019, the Gender at the Center Initiative (GCI) has been working on its objectives in eight countries: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, to promote gender equality in and through education.
To understand how IIEP-UNESCO Dakar came into being, we need to go back to April 2000, when Senegal’s capital was hosting the UNESCO World Education Forum. At the dawn of the new millennium, this event brought together hundreds of national policymakers and delegations from 181 member countries. The aim was to define a new framework for action to achieve “Education for all” by 2015. The international community gathered in Dakar felt that the lack of resources should not stand in the way of schooling and access to quality education.