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UNGEI: Accelerating Progress
on Girls’ Education
A Donor’s Perspective from DFID
EFA Working Group, July 22-23
Desmond Bermingham
Head Of Profession, Education DFID
Presentation prepared by the DFID EFA Team
The Goals of UNGEI
Accelerating and coordinating gender work
in all international, regional and national
education initiatives.
 Increasing emphasis on girls’ education in
sector plans and budgets.
 Improving international co-ordination and
collaboration.
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UNGEI Progress to Date
 Girls’ education established as an institutional
priority for UNICEF.
 International collaboration strengthened – Jan,
June, and Nov 2002 Consultative Meetings.
 Acceleration strategy for 25 countries agreed.
 Support from bilateral donors secured.
Future Role of UNGEI
Influencing and advocacy to turn gender
equity policies into action through national
and international initiatives.
Supporting coordination and collaboration
at the regional and country level to achieve
the EFA goals for gender equity.
National planning frameworks:
(UNDAF, CAP, PRSP, MTEF )
UNGEI
Education sector development programme
In-Country
UNGEI
UNGEI
global
regional
partnership
partnership
‘National
partnership’
‘Working groups’:
Government
Finance
Civil society
Access
Quality
UNICEF
Unesco
Donors
NGOs
Girls education
group
HIV / AIDs
Teacher training
Curriculum
Others…
UNGEI: Opportunities at the
Country Level
 Promoting a common understanding among key
stakeholders.
 Facilitating harmonized approaches to girls’
education.
 Sharing information and lesson-learning.
 Joint advocacy and influencing to mainstream
gender equity policies in PRSPs, SWAPs, national
budgets.
Girls’ Education: The
Challenges for UNGEI
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Human resources: UNGEI regional and country
focal points.
Ensuring sufficient capacity on gender equity and
sector planning within UNICEF education group.
Strategy for international, regional, and national
coordination.
Developing effective structures for engagement at
the country level.
Approach for the non-selected countries.
UNGEI at Country Level
What we do in partnership for girls’
education…
…will be stronger than what
we can do alone