Gender, education and global poverty reduction initiatives
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: Humanities and Social Sciences
Abstract
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Publications
Gideon J
(2021)
Critical reflections on public private partnerships
Rampal A
(2021)
Education and International Development: An Introduction
Elaine Unterhalter (author)
(2008)
Gender, education and global poverty reduction initiatives : introduction and overview of presentation
Veerle Dieltiens (author)
(2008)
Looking the other way : gender and education in South Africa
Jenni Karlsson (author)
(2008)
The things that are giving us problems are the things that we cannot do without : the SA and Kenyan school case studies
Elaine Unterhalter (Author)
(2010)
Engendering empowerment : education and equality e-conference convergence week
Unterhalter E
(2015)
Thinking Beyond Sectors for Sustainable Development
Jenni Karlsson (author)
(2009)
Negotiating gender equality in South African and Kenyan school
Unterhalter, E.
(2012)
Global Education Policy and International Development: New Agendas, Issues and Policies
Unterhalter E
(2014)
Capabilities, Gender, Equality - Towards Fundamental Entitlements
| Description | The MDGFs and EFA establsihed global frameworks for advancing policy and practice work in relation to gender equality and girls' education.A gap was identified in policy, practice and academic commentary which would enable consideration of how gender, education and poverty connected. The potential of using comparative case studies to look at a similar process (the interpretation of global policy frameworks) in a range of different settings was established.The importance of building global networks engaged with work on policy and professional practice in the field of gender, education and poverty was highlighted. The need for work in this area to proceed at supra-national, national and sub-national level in state and non-state structures was established as of considerable importance is planning for global frameworks that might succeed the millennium development goals (MDGs). The existence of particular discourse of 'blaming the poor' and stigmatising poor schoolgirls, notably those who became pregnant was identified as a particular problem in the way teachers and members of school management committees thought about their work in Kenya and South Africa. The findigs from the project questioned the simple assertions that having a global policy framework was sufficient to guide practice and enhancement of action on gender equality in education. The research project examined some of the complex relationships entailed in the translation of global policy frameworks concerned with gender equality to national and local contexts, and whether, and on what terms, any authority is given to local actors. In charting the relationships entailed in taking policy from a space of ideas, ideals, and interpretations of experience, into action, we documented how changed practice does and does not happen looking at state and non state contexts. |
| Exploitation Route | This research could be used in building national and supra-national coalitions, developing training materials, and thinking about indicators for monitoring and evaluating projects in gender, education and poverty This research can be put to use in building coalitions of global and local NGOs,officials in government at national and local levels and teachers to look at the way they think about issues of gender, education and poverty, the particular resources they have avaialble for professional training, the measures used in evaluating progress, and the extent to which they take account of the views of poor girls. These processes are particularly pertinent in thinking about a post 2015 MDG agenda, and have been used in rigorously reviewing literature in this area, developing global policy, and informing practice around SDG 4 & 5 |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice,Security and Diplomacy |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2017/aug/new-book-explores-education-poverty-and-global-goals-gender-equality |
| Description | Findings from the study have been used in designing large government projects (eg. Girls Education Challenge in the UK), in developing rigorous reviews of literature in the firld (eg. Unterhalter et al, 2014) and focusing the work of UNGEI and UNESCO in relation to girls' education and gender equality. They have also been influential in the work of lsarge NGOs eg. ActionAid and SCF |
| First Year Of Impact | 2010 |
| Sector | Education,Security and Diplomacy |
| Impact Types | Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | UN Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) Dakar declaration on accelerating girls' education and gender equality |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Our research identified how little government officials, teachers and NGO workers had paid specific attention to the way poverty and gender affected education. As contributors to the conference steering committee we wrote the Situation Analaysis and generated the key ideas for the Declaration. The focus on girls education, poverty and violence has become central to global policy making associated with G7 Declaration, large DFID programme, debates around SDGs |
| Description | Accountability for gender equality. Paper for Gender Review |
| Amount | £12,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | France |
| Start | 06/2017 |
| End | 11/2017 |
| Description | NORRAG |
| Amount | $6,000 (USD) |
| Organisation | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Description | Rigorous literature review of girls' education and gender equality |
| Amount | £20,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Government of the UK |
| Department | Department for International Development (DfID) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2013 |
| End | 09/2013 |
| Description | Teacher Education, Teacher Practice, Approaches to Gender and Girls' Schooling Outcomes: A Study in Five Nigerian States |
| Amount | £122,808 (GBP) |
| Organisation | British Council |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2012 |
| End | 07/2016 |
| Title | Rigorous literature review girls education and gender equality |
| Description | Conducted rigorous review of literature on girls' education drawing on EPPI software |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The rigorous review has been very widely read and cited and has been used in formulating large programmes - eg. DFID Girs educaiton challenge, US Let girls learn. It informed the development of the AGEE dashboard |
| URL | https://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Portals/0/PDF%20reviews%20and%20summaries/Girls'%20education%202014%20Unt... |
| Title | Interviews dataset |
| Description | Transcripts of interviews collected for the GEGPRI project |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Enhanced knowledge of need to develop knowledge of gender among policy makers and practioners working on gender and education issues |
| Description | UN Girls Education Initative |
| Organisation | United Nations (UN) |
| Department | United Nations Girls Education Initiative |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Comments on ongoing projects as member of advisory committee, eg project on gender responsive financing with Malala Foundation, and advice on projects being developed eg. Gender responsive Education Sector Planning (GRESP) and Girls' education work with GPE (2021) Published Equals newsletter with funding from UNGEI ( from c. 2005) before current award began |
| Collaborator Contribution | Advice on projects being developed, policy networks, policy papers in development, strategic opportunities |
| Impact | Development of dashboard indicator framework for use in discussions of traning materials for GRESP. Scoping paper for GPE KIX (published 2019 Unterhalter, Parkes and Howell) developed in discussion with UNGEI. Participated in discussions of direction for UNESCO Gender Review. Plans for Girls' education day (2021) |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | UNESCO GEM Report team |
| Organisation | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Comment on and assistance with development of draft indicator framework for use at global level. Ideas utilised in Gender Review, 2019. Used in presentations for Gender at the Centre Initiativbe, 2019 Commissioned to write concept paper on intersectionality and partnership with non state partners (2020) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Comment on draft dashboard for national indicaotr framework. Networking with global partners Contributed background papers on gender to a range of GEM reports. This partnership pre-dates this award |
| Impact | Draft indicator frameworks reported in GPE blog https://www.globalpartnership.org/blog/making-gender-equality-reality-education-what-will-it-take Indicator framework in UINESCO GEM report Gender Review, 2019 |
| Description | UNESCO GEM Report team |
| Organisation | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Comment on and assistance with development of draft indicator framework for use at global level. Ideas utilised in Gender Review, 2019. Used in presentations for Gender at the Centre Initiativbe, 2019 Commissioned to write concept paper on intersectionality and partnership with non state partners (2020) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Comment on draft dashboard for national indicaotr framework. Networking with global partners Contributed background papers on gender to a range of GEM reports. This partnership pre-dates this award |
| Impact | Draft indicator frameworks reported in GPE blog https://www.globalpartnership.org/blog/making-gender-equality-reality-education-what-will-it-take Indicator framework in UINESCO GEM report Gender Review, 2019 |
| Description | University of Kwazulu Natal |
| Organisation | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration pre-dates this award,. The work undertaken through this award builds on relationships established through previous projhects. In this award we have contributed to jointly authored conference papers, a jointly authored paper submitted to an international journal, promoting the profile of UKZN at international policy meetings. We have engaged with members of the Advisroty Committee for AGEE convened by UNKZ, engaged in discussions about current and future research, and possible career paths for researchers. In 2021 Prof Moletsane spoke at the launch fo the AGEE webiste and on a shared platform at the UKFIET conference. Prof Moletsane will contribute a paper to the Special Issue of Comparative Education being edited through the work of the project |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sponsoring co-investigator to attend WERA conference, August 2018 in Cape Town. Provision of meeting rooms for convening of advisory committee, February 2019 and 2020 Contributed to research design, data collection and analysis, co-auhtored conference papers and presentations. Contributed presentation to launch of AGEE webiste (2021) and joint panel at UKFIET conference |
| Impact | Conference presentation, WERA, Cape Town August 2018; c onference presentation SAERA, October 2019 Convening South Africa Advisory Committee, February 2018 and February 2019 Presentations at launch of AGEE website (2021) and UKFIET conference (2021) |
| Description | Drought, drop out and early marriage : feeling the effects of climate change in East Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Article about the affects of climate change for girls and their education in East Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| URL | http://www.ungei.org/resources/1612_674.html |
| Description | Equity takes us further |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Assessed signficance of equity in MDG framework |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| URL | http://thebrokeronline.eu/layout/set/print/Blogs/Goal-Posts-What-next-for-the-MDGs/Equity-takes-us-f... |
| Description | Gender, education and global obligations for poverty reduction |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at Sussex School of Education Open Seminar Series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Gender, education and global poverty reduction initiatives |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at Seminar held by the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Gender, education and poverty |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at the Open Society Institute (OSI), London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Gender, education and poverty |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at Poverty and Education in Development Workshop. University of East Anglia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| URL | http://www.uea.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.97897!poverty%20and%20education%20-%20workshop%20communique.pdf |
| Description | Hair braiding and phone credit : blaming poor girls in South Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Article in Equals newsletter that discusses the finding of the GEGPRI research project that hunger overshadows understandings of poverty for teachers in South African schools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.ioe.ac.uk/Equals_27_English_e-version.pdf |
| Description | Human development, education and the capability approach |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at UNDP Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Innovative conference to look at how far we have come on equality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | E4: Engendering Empowerment: Education and Equality will be an innovative conference for education activists, academics, practitioners, policy makers and girls themselves from many countries of the world, held under the auspices of UNGEI (United Nations Girls' Education Initiative). E4 will take place in April and May 2010 using electronic media (the E-conference) and participatory discussion in Dakar, Senegal (the D-conference). UNGEI initiated the idea of the conference to mark ten years since the organisation was launched at the Education for All (EFA) conference in Dakar in 2000. UNGEI aims to use the conference deliberations as a means to assess how far we have come since 2000 and what significant challenges remain. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| URL | http://www.e4conference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Equals25.pdf |
| Description | Living the MDGs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This article looks at how MDGs 1,2 and 3 are being implemented in Kenya, South Africa and selected global organisations. Article in Newsletter for Beyond Access: Gender, Education and Development |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.ioe.ac.uk/Equals_27_English_e-version.pdf |
| Description | Missing the mark on gender inequality : more of the same is not enough |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Article in Newsletter for Beyond Access: Gender, Education and Development This articles challenges the limited gender agenda promoted by the MDGs and EFA frameworks |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011,2014 |
| URL | http://www.ioe.ac.uk/Equals_27_English_e-version.pdf |
| Description | Negotiating gender, schooling and global obligation in international organisations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sociology seminar at the Institute of Education, University of London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Punishment and care : respoding to poverty in Kenya |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Article from Equals Newsletter, 27, in which the author discusses poverty with teachers at a Kenyan university. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.ioe.ac.uk/Equals_27_English_e-version.pdf |
| Description | Shot through with power : local understandings of women's empowerment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Article in Equals newsletter looking at understandings of gender and empowerment in a Southern context Helped build interest ing irls education as a key international/g;lobal polciy issue |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011,2015 |
| URL | http://www.ioe.ac.uk/Equals_27_English_e-version.pdf |
| Description | Skirting the classroom : changing bureaucracy, transforming gender in the education system |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Consultative seminar on Gender Equity and Gender Equality in Basic Education, hosted by UNICEF (South Africa) and the Gender Equity Unit of the Department of Basic Education. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Still too far away : distance and disconnection on gender and poverty in schools |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This is an article written for the newsletter 'Equals'. The article deals with disconnection on gender and poverty in schools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | The benefits of inter-disciplinary dialogue: case studies from the MDGs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Remarks at the launch of the Lancet MDG Commission, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |