Blog series: Beijing +25 and the road ahead for gender parity

  • A Advocacy Campaign/Project

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Key Information

Today, women still make up 66% of the world's illiterate adults, 40% of the global labour force and only 6% of international leaders. The year 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. And while much progress has been made, the promise of the Platform for Action remains unfulfilled. We are also starting to see a backlash that is seeking to reverse these gains and intimidate the women who are driving progress. In the build up to the 64th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW64) in March 2020, this blog series brings together key research and experts from ODI to critically examine global progress and challenges to gender equality since 1995, and to outline realistic goals for accelerating progress over the next 25 years. The blog series is divided into seven parts and each addresses a critical area of concern outlined in the Beijing Platform for Action: the girl child (Nicola Jones)m women and poverty (Carmen Leon-Himmelstine), women in power and decision-making (Rachel George), violence against women (Virginie Le Masson), women in the economy (Sara Pantuliano and Arancha González), education and training of women (Rachel Marcus), women and armed conflict (Karen Barnes Robinson).


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2019 - 2020

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

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COVID-19 Response

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Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

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Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other

  • Transition from school to work

Other skills

  • Rights/empowerment education

Cross-cutting areas

  • Early/child marriage
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Empowerment

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

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Age

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School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

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Other populations reached

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Participants include

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Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies

School-related gender-based violence

  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

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Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced child marriage