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Welcome to Girls
Too!
Welcome to
the first issue of Girls Too! – a monthly electronic
newsletter sent to you by the United Nations Girls’ Education
Initiative (UNGEI).
UNGEI is determinedly committed to
stepping up our efforts to promote girls’ education and
revitalizing the movement in 2006 to achieve the Education for All
goals. Some of our activities will include rigorous global
campaigns, partnership building at the regional level, sharing
knowledge and experience at the country level, and recruiting new
partners.
Girls
Too!will deliver news on progress in achieving these goals,
feature partners’ profiles, highlight partners' activities and
inform you about upcoming events.
Girls
Too!is part of a broader initiative, GirlsEd-Net, an online
knowledge network that aims to facilitate dialogue and information
sharing among UNGEI partners and those working on girls’ education.
Other activities will include eDiscussions (to start in July) and
information-sharing announcements.
We welcome
your feedback and suggestions
for development of this monthly newsletter and for selecting themes
for our eDiscussions.
'Engendering the FTI': UNGEI's
contribution to the FTI processes
A review of
gender in the Fast Track Initiative (FTI) commissioned by UNGEI
found that the FTI does not appear to have consistently and
systematically encouraged the integration of gender in national
education plans. At the FTI partnership meeting in Beijing,
participants recognised this as a weakness. Recommendations have
emerged from this review and Girls Too! will be reporting on
progress made in implementing them in the course of the year. To
read an article by Beyond Access on this issue, click
here.
Upcoming
events:
12-15 June: Central Asian
Republics and Kazakhstan (CARK) Education Forum, Ashgabat,
Turkmenistan
22-24 June: Challenges
and Possibilities in Gender Equity Education, Second
International Conference in the Asia-Pacific Region, Taipo, Hong
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