Developing equitable and inclusive education sector plans
Through practical, interactive, and participatory workshops of the Gender-Responsive Education Sector Planning (GRESP) initiative, Ministries of Education staff, members of local education groups and other stakeholders have engaged in reflection, peer-learning, and skill-building to develop equitable and inclusive education sector plans.
Early in 2021, along with other partners such as UNICEF, UNESCO, the Global Partnership for Education and Plan International, Gender at Work collaborated with UNGEI to organise a three-part series of online dialogues on gender and education in East and Southeast Asia. More than 80 participants, including government, non-governmental and multi/bilateral partners from 19 countries participated.
Additionally, Gender at Work collaborated closely with the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) and the African Network Campaign on Education for All (ANCEFA) to design a four-day in-person GRESP workshop for 40 francophone civil society representatives from across West and Central Africa, which was held in Dakar in September 2021 with UNGEI’s support.
This project also enabled Gender at Work to translate the full GRESP curriculum developed following a previously held facilitator training workshop (Nairobi, 2019) into French.
Finally, in November-December 2023, Gender at Work designed and facilitated two GRESP workshops — one in Bamako, for 25 Ministry of Education, Civil Society Organisations (CSO) and youth representatives, and another for 40 Ministry of Education, CSO and multilateral organisation representatives from 8 African countries held in Dakar, in both French and English.