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THE MDG'S, GIRLS' EDUCATION &
GENDER EQUALITY
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"In my view, these goals and targets do not go sufficiently to the
heart of what needs to be done to address girls’ and women’s education and
advocating for gender equality. The significance of education to the post 2015
framework is signalled by the fact that a good education emerged as the number
one priority for the post 2015 world for the nearly 1 million people around the
world who voted in the UN/civil society poll regarding the world we want. The
HLP goals and targets set the amount of education we will assure too
low. Lower secondary education is only promised in terms of access, not
attendance, completion, or quality. If the indicators for the gender goal on
ending violence against women, child marriage and ensuring women’s
participation in public life are to be supported, the amounts of education
assured by the education goal – primary education and access, to lower
secondary education, not completion is not enough. Completion of a basic cycle
of schooling (between 9 and 12 years depending on the country) seems a minimum
to me, with some progressive provision of continuing education for everyone,
not just linked to technical and vocational education."
ECLAC - UN Economic Commission for Latin America & The Caribbean