The World Bank’s Post

Continuous wars, climate change looming disasters and most importantly poverty has pushed a large number of girls out from the education continuum as per the “World Bank Report” We need more funding and interventions to solve such intertwined issues with a special focus in Global South.

Achieving gender equality is closely linked to education. Despite progress in educational access, significant challenges persist, particularly in rural areas where schools are distant, learning facilities are inadequate, and the quality of teaching is subpar. Addressing these issues requires a sustained, multifaceted approach. Enhancing infrastructure, consistently training and retraining teachers, and engaging stakeholders—teachers, students, and local leaders—can bridge educational gaps and promote the importance of gender equality. In patriarchal societies, the value of educating girls is often underestimated, a narrative that must change. Additionally, creating and expanding scholarships for children and youth from vulnerable backgrounds is essential.

Great publication and research insights here by the The World Bank that speak to the realities on #gendergaps between male and female. What is clear too, is the likely shift on gender gaps that may affect #males than #females partly due to affirmative action to empower women and girls due to existing #socialcultural barriers, #norms and #system barriers. With this, Gender Transformative Approaches become even more necessary now than ever. #countmen. #menleadership, #genderequality, #equity. I am aware that some areas in the gender equality indicators as per the #SDG priorities have regressed for some countries and my reflection is that this requires conceited efforts, political will at different levels #political will and new models in advancing gender equality. United Nations UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Unifem unwomen UNDP Or are we likely to go into a reversal within the gender equality space?.

Read what's below. highly valuable

"Both individuals and countries benefit from girls’ education. Education is fundamental to improving girls’ and young women’s lives. Better educated women tend to be more informed about nutrition and healthcare, have fewer children, marry at a later age, and their children are usually healthier, should they choose to become mothers. They are more likely to participate in the formal labor market and earn higher incomes. Furthermore, schools empower all students, serving as incubators where students can learn about their own potential and rights in the world around them. All these factors combined can help lift households, communities, and countries out of poverty. The costs of not investing in girls’ education are steep: a World Bank study estimates that limited educational opportunities for girls cost countries between US$15 trillion1 and $30 trillion in lost lifetime productivity and earnings." #Education #HumanRights #Poverty #GenderEquality

What strikes me the most about this WB #CountMeIn brochure on improving education outcomes for girls and young women is the fact that, regardless of gender, girls and boys alike from low-income countries face a steep learning curve. In fact, the Learning Poverty(LP), which measures the number of children unable to read and understand simple texts by age ten, is high for both . Although this may lead one easily to rush to conclude that the socio-economic background of children, rather than their gender, is the main contributing factor accounting for the lag in literacy youngsters suffer from in low-income developing countries, it still remains true that gender inequality is still particularly sharp in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Fragility,Conflict,Violence(FCV) contexts. What's more alarming, women and girls represent only 35% of students enrolled in STEM programs globally at the HIGHER EDUCATION level.

Achieving gender equality by improving education outcomes for girls and young women is central to our twin goals of ending extreme poverty & boosting shared prosperity on a #LivablePlanet. DOWNLOAD our new "#CountMeIn" brochure: http://wrld.bg/GCC550ShYOo

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