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)