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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 [...]

Togo; Mexico; Tunisia; Madagascar; Cameroon; Senegal
This website of the CEPED (Centre Population et Développement) offers full texts about different educational topics of individual countries; Togo (Identités sexuées et relations entre personnages dans les manuels togolais de mathématiques), Tunisia (Les manuels scolaires en Tunisie reflètent-ils la réalité tunisienne ?), Cameroon (Évolution des rapports de genre au fil [...]

Côte d'Ivoire
Besides a short overview of the educational situation of girls in the country, the site presents UNGEIs perspectives and goals, mainly to strengthen the community`s participation to promote girls` education and to reduce gender disparities. The section "newsline" informs about recent activities on the educational sector concerning girls` education.

Tajikistan
Unicef presents its work in Tadjikistan. The chapter "activities" contains a discpription of the program "Quality Basic Education for All".

Tajikistan
This collection of statistical data was published by UNICEF in May 2008. It contains data on different aspects of education, such as enrollement at different levels of education, financing, gender disparities, pupil-teacher-ratio.

Tajikistan
This research report was published by the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in 2007. It summarizes the current situation of civic education in Tajikistan. The background of this research is a new program for civic education aiming at familiarization of the population with civic rights and duties. The report discribes the development of civic education since the time of the [...]

Commonwealth; international
Our goal is to support Commonwealth governments in their efforts to attain universal, sustainable and high quality education for all citizens. We work closely with ministries of Education and various partners to address the six action areas in education across the Commonwealth. These include achieving Universal Primary Education; eliminating gender disparities in education; [...]

Australia
"The Boys Gender and Schooling website has been developed by the Queensland Department of Education and the Arts in response to school and community concerns about boys' education. It rejects the ' gender wars' approach adopted by some commentators in favour of a commitment to gender equity and improved outcomes for all students, male and female." The website provides [...]

Australia; international
"The objective of the Global Education Website is to increase the amount and quality of teaching of global education in Australian primary and secondary schools. As well as country profiles and information about global issues the site contains teaching and learning support materials, teaching ideas and activities, case studies, a professional development event noticeboard, a [...]

Australia
"Over the past decade there has been considerable community concern that boys in Australian schools are not achieving as well as possible. Some areas of concern for boys compared to girls are their lower literacy achievement, lower school retention and lower levels of participation in higher education. To help those boys who are not achieving in school, the Australian [...]

international
This website of UNICEF is on the one hand an information ressource concerning girls' education and on the other hand an appeal to all responsable people to promote education of girls, particularly in developing countries. A variety of reports refers to areas in which the international organisation has been active.

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.

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 [...]