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There are a number of actions taken by educational NGOs that can work to decrease the gender gap. They include: | There are a number of actions taken by educational NGOs that can work to decrease the gender gap. They include: | ||
| − | #Raising awareness on the social and economic benefits to educating girls | + | #Raising awareness on the social and economic benefits to educating girls |
| − | #Decreasing the cost of girls’ education for parents | + | #Decreasing the cost of girls’ education for parents |
| − | #Developing relevant gender sensitive curriculum | + | #Developing relevant gender sensitive curriculum |
| − | #Promoting the training and recruitment of female teachers | + | #Promoting the training and recruitment of female teachers |
| − | #Improving access by reducing the distance to schools | + | #Improving access by reducing the distance to schools |
| − | #Promoting community participation in the planning, development, and management of educational programs | + | #Promoting community participation in the planning, development, and management of educational programs |
| − | #Promoting literacy training of parents | + | #Promoting literacy training of parents |
#Using multiple delivery systems ranging from formal to informal to alternative (Wazir 2000). | #Using multiple delivery systems ranging from formal to informal to alternative (Wazir 2000). | ||
Revision as of 11:41, 4 August 2008
Contents
Overview of Educational NGOs
NGOs are civil society actors. They have a specific agenda for the improvement of society, and act on the desire to advance and improve the human condition (Gallin 2000). In 1990, the decade of “Education for All” (EFA) was launched in Jomtien, Thailand. There were six goals set in Jomtien and in 2000 in Dakar, Senegal, these goals were reaffirmed for another 15 years until 2015 (Torres). They are:
- Expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children.
- Ensuring that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, children in difficult circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to, and complete, free and compulsory primary education of good quality.
- Ensuring that the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable access to appropriate learning and life-skills programs.
- Achieving a 50 percent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women, and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults.
- Eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, and achieving gender equality in education by 2015, with a focus on ensuring girls’ full and equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality.
- Improving all aspects of the quality of education and ensuring excellence of all so that recognized and measurable learning outcomes are achieved by all, especially in literacy, numeracy and essential life skills (UNESCO 2000).
Since the Dakar conference, the coordination group has been set up to ensure, in collaboration with UNESCO, that there are follow-up of activities as well as programs and mechanisms for NGOs under the area of “Education For All”. The Coordination Group is composed of eight representatives of civil society organizations, comprised of five regional organizations, two international organizations, and one representative of the UNESCO/NGO Liaison Committee (CCNGO 2001).
