Promoting Gender-Responsive Education Sector Plan

  • R Research Project/Report/Study

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

GPE supports countries' efforts to develop, finance, and implement education plans that are gender-responsive. These plans include specific measures to reduce gender disparities and make teaching and learning more responsive to the needs of both girls and boys. Together with the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative, GPE has developed guidelines to support gender-responsive education sector analysis and planning.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://www.globalpartnership.org/what-we-do/gender-equality

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education

Quality

  • School-related gender-based violence
  • School violence
  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • Gender equality
  • Masculinities/boys
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • Boys (both in school and out of school)

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased school completion (general)

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)