2023 REPORT

Call for an international day for Gender Equality in and through Education Feminist Network for Gender Transformative Education | 2023 Report | 5 SUMMARY OF 2023 “The event achieved the PARTICIPANTS’ FEEDBACK most strategic outcome possible of building Overall, the feedback on the event was positive, community because that is with 95% of participants saying that the the first step of building a ev. [...] Development of a Feminist Declaration on Gender-Transformative Education to influence the United Nations Summit of the Future, September 2024, ensuring gender equality in and through education is at the heart of the next set of international goals following the Sustainable Development Goals 2. [...] Ashlee is leading the development of a new glossary on gender-transformative education (name and terms to be discussed and finalized with the Network in 2024) with the UN Girls’ Education Initiative. [...] Organizations had to create strategies to respond to the needs of these girls, this is seen in the work of Gender at the Center Initiative (implemented by IIEP-UNESCO and UNGEI.) Rangina Hamidi, former Minister of Education in Afghanistan, spoke of the situation in Afghanistan being a direct result of Afghanistan’s history of conflict and competing interests of the international world order, post-. [...] Suggestions included development of global guidance on gender-transformative re-entry policies for adolescent mothers and survivors of child, early and forced marriage; development of global guidance on mental health in education and inclusion of women in teachers’ unions and women teachers in the women’s rights movements as they are often the lead in schools and communities in advancing gender eq.