https://www.globalpartnership.org/news/open-letter-world-leaders-calls-5...
The letter calls for 5 keys actions to accelerate progress on gender equality in access to, within, and through education.
"Dear World Leaders,
Re: Urgent action to accelerate progress on gender equality in education
Despite significant progress in getting as many girls as boys to access education, we have still not achieved gender equality in education. And around the world, girls are falling further and further behind. Yet improving girls’ education will unlock wider benefits of gender equality for a healthier, more prosperous, and fairer society.
We need you to take urgent action:
- Invest in educating girls, the smartest investment a country can make.
- Prioritize making education inclusive and accessible for the most marginalized girls, especially girls living with disabilities and forcibly displaced girls.
- Make schools safe places where girls can learn without the threat of violence.
- Build climate-resilient education systems to ensure learning continuity for girls, whose education experiences are disproportionately affected by climate events.
- Guarantee access to gender-transformative early learning to address harmful gender social norms.
There can be no sustainable development if gender equality is not embedded at the heart of education systems. We can’t afford to leave anyone behind.
With hope,"
- Amplify Girls
- Development Research and Project Center
- Educate!
- GPE
- UNESC
- GPE is the largest global fund solely dedicated to transforming education in lower-income countries, and a unique, multi-stakeholder partnership. We work to deliver quality education so that every girl and boy can have hope, opportunity and agency.
For two decades, GPE has been delivering funds and supporting solutions to build strong and resilient education systems in countries characterized by extreme poverty or conflict so that more children, especially girls, get the education they need to thrive and contribute to building a more prosperous and sustainable world.
GPE brings together all partners invested in education --lower-income countries, donors, international organizations, civil society, including youth and teacher organizations, the private sector and private foundations-- to transform education systems focusing particularly on the places and people with the greatest needs.
Our unique model has helped partner countries make significant progress in improving access, learning and equity, and achieve better outcomes for hundreds of millions of boys and girls.
