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Africa South of the Sahara; Ghana; Kenya; Uganda; Zambia
ESSA describes itself as "charity using evidence to improve education in sub-Saharan Africa". This is done primarily through evidence-based research. Focus countries in the period 2021-2026 are Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia. Priority topics are access to education, quality of education, transition from school to work, the promotion of African researchers and women in [...]

Afghanistan
This paper examines practices of the Afghan Taliban in relation to the provision of education in Afghanistan. In particular, it focuses on the Ministry of Education’s (MoE) general curriculum, which includes mathematics, sciences, social studies, languages, arts, and culture. Schools run by the MoE (maktabs) also provide several hours per week of Islamic education, though [...]

Peru
In the whole world, the United Nations work over an ensemble of organisations which calls itself System of the United Nations (SNU) and which was created by the office of the UN, by funds and programs (such as the UNESCO and the WHO) as well as by participating organisations. These organisations include all spheres of economical and social activity. In Peru, the SNU is adapted [...]

Liberia
The Liberian Education Trust (LET) was established to support the restoration of basic education in Liberia. Based in the US and Liberia, the trust seeks to raise funds for projects in Liberia´s education system, especially in women´s education.

Chile
The task of this website is to analyse the principal studies for the service of the National Women's Office and for other institutions, whose themes are directly related to women's affairs and with the existent gender-inequalities. Furthermore, the website provides necessary information for private as well as public organisms and for the civil population, to change the [...]

Liberia
Development Education Network-Liberia (DEN-L) is a local non-governmental, non-partisan, secular and non-profit-making organization established for facilitating programmes that promote quality human development, responsible and responsive leadership, and an empowered followship that appreciates its gender differentness and is aware of its civic obligations and rights. DEN-L [...]

Rwanda
Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), Rwanda Chapter, is a non-profit membership organisation that brings together people interested in promoting female education in Rwanda. Since its inception in November 1997, FAWE Rwanda has broadened its scope of assistance in Education throughout the country. FAWE’s core mission is to work, together with its partners, to [...]

Uganda; Kenya; Congo, Republic of the (Congo-Brazzaville); Bangladesh; Cambodia; Thailand; Philippines
CO-OPERAID is a non-profit, politically and confessionally independent humanitarian Swiss association with its headquarters in Zurich. The association was founded in 1981. CO-OPERAID is active in the field of education and professional education. Its projects help impoverished children and young people in a current total of seven countries in Africa and Asia: Uganda, Kenya, [...]

Uganda; Rwanda; Kenya
The Mission Work Good News (MFB e.V.) in Großalmerode is a Christian-humanitarian aid organization which works in Eastern Africa since 1962. It focusses on child- and partnership programss, the fostering of school education, women's self-help projects, educational endowment and old people's welfare. For 25 years, child partnerships are successfully conciliated in Uganda, [...]

Uganda
The task of the society Soma-Uganda incorporated society is to put as many Ugandan children through school as possible. Especially for orphans and children with critically ill parents, this is the only possibility to create future prospects. Currently (april 2011), it conciliates school sponsorships to attain this goal. In the near future, the society is going to work on [...]

Uganda
Somero empowers young people in Uganda through education. Due to the inequality of the sexes, the focus of Somero is on the support of girls and young women. Somero awards educational scholarships to young Ugandans who pursue their dream of education with high motivation, but cannot realize it because of a lack of money or family support. By obtaining the comprehensive [...]

Cameroon; Germany
Hope Foundation (HF) is a German and Cameroonian non-profit development and non- governmental registered organization. Hope Foundation was founded in the year 2001 with the primary goal of promoting community development and alleviating poverty in rural and needy areas of Cameroon, thereby improving the standards of living of the rural communities in Cameroon. A number of [...]

Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
Korea Research Foundation (KRF) is a national organization dedicated to social and scientific development. Main tasks of the KRF are as follows: 1) promotion of basic research, 2) support for women and young scientists, 3) promotion of scientific exchange and cooperation between North and South Korea and international research partners, 4) advancing progress in science and [...]

Japan
This is a report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the situation of women in Japan, including some details concerning education. In particular the articles 10 and 11 are offering information on the situation of women in the educational system.

Japan
"VSJF - German Association for Social Science Research on Japan" was founded in 1988. Its general aim was and still is to strengthen the study of contemporary Japan in the German-speaking countries. Under "activities" you can find the section group on education. The database experts allows the search for experts in specific fields.

Japan
The "Center for US-Japan Comparative Social Studies" is an internet- based non-profit organisation founded in 2000. It aims to provide the general public with information about education, society and culture in Japan in English and about education, society and culture in the United States in Japanese. This article deals mainly with the equal rights of women concerning [...]

Austria
The ministry is responsible for science and research and provides information about higher education and studying in Austria as well as current research topics. Gender aspects and international affairs are further focal themes.

Rwanda
This is the official site of the Ministry of Education. It provides general information about the education system and the strategic priorities of the government.

Southeastern Europe
On the homepage the mission of the STAR network has been defined: It provides encouragement, financial support and technical assistance to locally-led initiatives that advance women's economic and political leadership in the post-Yugoslav region. It is precisely explained on the website by means of which activities, measures, programmes, partnerships and resources the aims [...]

Australia
The Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) is an independent, not-for-profit national agency that promotes, audits, and reports on quality assurance in Australian higher education. The website contains information on AUQA and gives access to full-text versions of its publications as well as to the Good Practice Database, which contains Good Practices in higher [...]

Australia
"AFUW is the voice of graduate women promoting the advancement of women worldwide and their equality of opportunity." Its website provides information on the AFUW, its activities and scholarships.

Australia
The Association of Women Educators (AWE) "works actively to further the participation of women and girls in education and to eliminate all forms of discrimination in curriculum, in institutional practices and in policies." Its website provides information on the association, its activities, projects and publications.

Albania
UNDP in Albania works to reach the Millennium Development Goals, supports European Union integration, and responds to other national priorities through the Human Development Approach. The website features a broad range of information, a virtual library, country reports, projects, a newsletter ... .

Austria
The Austrian National Students Union (ÖH) is based on federal law - the Hochschülerschaftsgesetz. It is the only recognised representation of all students at Austrian Universities and Academies of education. ÖH is financially, administratively and politically independent and represent students politically and administratively on the level of subject, faculty, university and [...]

international
The site contains a report on the international measures directed at improving girl's and women's access to education. Further links lead to specific countries, campaigns, special topics such as "women's education and AIDS", and to the UN Millennium Development Goals.

Switzerland
Tha program's objective is to raise the rate of women in the Swiss professorate. The website descrbes 3 modules and the funding of the program.

Mongolia
This lecture held by Delgermaa Ganbaatar on the topic "Education of Women in Modern Mongolia Among Nomadic Population and Ethnic Minorities" belongs to a series of lectures, offered by the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AARI) in the U.S.A. This full text, supplemented by 10 Video Clips, reflects Mongolian educational history and draws also attention to current [...]

Greece
KETHI was founded in 1994, supervised and funded by the General Secretariat for Gender Equality of the Ministry of the Interior. Aims of KETHI's activities have a dual focus: to conduct social research on gender equality issues and to improve women's status and enable their advancement. Access to research surveys. Information on projects, conferences and overview of [...]

Ireland
NWCI ist the national representative organisation for women and women' s groups in Ireland with around 158 women's organisations and groups from all parts of Ireland affiliated to the Council. The aim is equal participation of women in all aspects of social and economic life. Information on various projects to foster education and training among women. Detailed information [...]

United Kingdom
"The Equal Opportunities Commission is the leading agency working to eliminate sex discrimination in 21st Century Britain". One of its areas of activities is education and skills. Besides general information on equal rights the site offers sections on policy and campaigns, research and statistics.

international; Ireland
The interdisciplinary Women's Studies Centre (formerly Women’s Education, Research and Resource Centre), according to its own statement, is the leading centre for feminist, women and gender studies in Ireland. Projects dealing with educational issues are as follows (as at 11/2012): * Inside Classrooms: A study of the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics in Social [...]

Canada
CRIAW is a national, not-for-profit organization committed to advancing women's equality through research. Links to universities supporting research in this field. Publications on woman-centered research, maintenance of a database of feminist researchers as well as of a resource center. Links to Canadian women's organizations, studies programs, journals and directories.

Canada
The Centre is situated in Montreal and collects, stores and disseminates information about the Canadian programmes of adult literacy and women's affairs. The homepage provides information about the documentary services (e.g. link collections, on-line documents, bulletin) and about the information distribution (e.g. a women's net).

France
This website of the Minister of Solidarity and Social Cohesion shows documents, studies, dossiers, statistics, an overview of the publications and official guidelines combined with practical information for specific parts of the society, especially older people, family and childhood, women and their equality and handicapped people.

Europe
ATHENA is a Socrates Thematic Network Project in which 80 Women' s and Gender Studies Programmes at universities, research institutes and documentation centres in Europe participate. ATHENA was created in 1996 by the Association of Institutions for Feminist Education and Research in Europe (AOIFE), and was selected as a Socrates Thematic Network Project in September 1998. The [...]

international
The United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) was launched in April 2000 at the World Education Forum in Dakar by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Its goal is to narrow the gender gap in primary and secondary education and to ensure that by 2015, all children complete primary schooling, with girls and boys having equal access to all levels of [...]

Japan
The National Women's Education Center (NWEC) was established to contribute to the promotion of women's education as an institution for social education. These are its main tasks: Conducting of study and training programmes; National and international exchange programmes; Surveys and research seminars on women's and family education; Construction of databases on Japanese and [...]

Israel
The homepage of the Israeli Ministry of Education is mostly in Hebrew. The English version consists of one single page which unfortunately doesn't provide a lot of information. Moreover, the links provided here mostly lead to pages in Hebrew. At least the link to "Evaluating foreign academic degrees" leads to an English website. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Europe
AOIFE is a European association for Women's Studies based on institutional membership, a structure which links institutions dedicated to initiating and supporting feminist education and research in Europe, a forum for collectively addressing and acting on issues concerning Women's Studies by means of co-operation and networking, a platform from which to submit carefully [...]

Sudan
The Sudan-Net offers various links to the different areas of Sudanese Society, in particular to the tertiary educational institutions. Most of the websites give information about structure, organization and responsibilities of individuals. Special attention deserves a private university in Sudan dedicated to educating women, strengthening women's roles in national and rural [...]

Switzerland
The Swiss National Science Foundation supports scientific research at Swiss Universities and other scientific institutions and awards fellowships to young scientists.The list contains links to related schientific organisations.