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Brighter Futures with Education Development TrustAchieving a Gender-Responsive Pedagogy with Nora Fyles, Rosa Muraya & Ruth Naylor #3If we consider the specific needs of genders in the delivery of education as we do with other factors such as disability, then the benefits of gender-responsive education can be felt by all.In this special episode of Brighter Futures, celebrating International Women’s Day, we’re looking at some of the key gender-based issues faced globally, how we can move towards greater gender-responsive education, the progress made thus far, and the steps yet to be taken in the realm of girls’ education.This episode coversThe long-running push for greater provisions for girls’ educatio...2022-03-0859 min
The Gender at Work PodcastEpisode 08: The United Nations Girls' Education InitiativeThis week, David and Aruna speak with three powerful change makers collaborating to form the UN Girls' Education (UNGEI) initiative to end school-related gender-based violence in Sub-Saharan Africa. Leading the initiative is a trifecta of development practitioners, action-oriented researchers and behavior change experts – Nora Fyles (Head of Secretariat for the UN Girls’ Education Initiative), Madeleine Kennedy Macfoy (Coordinator in the Human and Trade Union Rights and Equality Unity, Education International) and Rex Fyles (Gender at Work Associate). We learned some alarming statistic from Nora, the Secretariat for UNGEI: In the Democratic Republic of Congo a UNICEF study tells us that 46 percen...2018-06-2036 min