UNESCO-China Hainan Airlines Project

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Key Information

This project aims to promote gender equality in and through the education sector by awareness and capacity building for education policy makers, school leaders and teachers, and mainstreaming gender in teacher education to foster gender-sensitive and gender-responsive future teachers. Although the project targets five pilot countries: Cambodia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan, its outputs and outcomes may be replicated and adapted to benefit other countries with similar conditions in the Asia-Pacific region and even beyond.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

East Asia & Pacific, Europe & Central Asia, South Asia

Cambodia, China, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan

Activity URL

Not applicable or unknown

Government Affiliation
Government-affiliated program
Years

2015 - 2021

Partner(s)

Ministry of Education or equivalent authorities and major teacher education institutions in Cambodia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan

Ministry Affiliation
Unknown
Funder(s)
  • UNESCO/HNA Partnership

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
Attainment
  • Post-secondary
  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion
Other skills
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
Quality
  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School quality
  • School-related gender-based violence
  • Teacher training
Skills
  • Civics education
  • Other academic performance-related
Cross-cutting areas
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • HIV and STIs
  • Masculinities/boys
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Other cultural practices
  • Sexual harassment & coercion
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Teachers - female, Teachers - male

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Population of interest is not school-aged

School Level

  • N/A
Other populations reached
  • Parent-teacher associations/school management committees
  • School administrators
Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top
Curriculum/learning
  • Gender-sensitive curricula
Menstrual hygiene management
  • Raising awareness about menstruation (beyond just girls)
Policy/legal environment
  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
  • Raising awareness about existing laws/policies
School-related gender-based violence
  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)
Teaching
  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general
  • Pre-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • Pre-service teacher training – pedagogy general
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Teachers and learners have the knowledge and skills to promote gender equality
Cross-cutting goals

Not applicable or unknown