VIRTUAL EVENT: The politics of measuring gender equality in education: perspectives for the G7

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Girls’ education is a key focus for the G7 hosted this year by the UK.

The Accountability for Gender Equality in Education (AGEE) project supports thinking globally, nationally and locally about how to monitor and evaluate efforts to expand girls’ access to schooling and improve gender equality in education. It considers links to wider social policy issues, and the connection with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda.

This event will explore the politics of steering between the complex relationships described by social research on gender and girls’ education and the clarity on data needed for public policy.

The AGEE framework provides a clear approach for researchers, policy makers and practitioners and includes a new framework of indicators, which also enables us to assess the specific disruptive effects of COVID and climate change on girls’ education and gender equality in education.  

The event will be an opportunity to share information and responses reflecting on these two processes. This meeting will:

• launch and explain the AGEE website and framework,
• reflect on the application of the AGEE framework for indicators with a community of practice of policy-makers, activists, development agencies, students and academics.

Speakers

• Nicole Bella, Senior Education Specialist, UNESCO.
• Sharon Tao, Director of Education, Girls' Education Challenge.
• Elaine Unterhalter, Professor of Education and International Development, UCL Institute of Education.
• Yanchun Zhang, Chief of Statistics, Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
• Chair: Esme Kadzamira, Research Fellow, University of Malawi.

Links

• Tweet with #AGEEevent
• The AGEE project
• Centre for Education and International Development
• Department of Education, Practice and Society