Asimawu Tahiru

This Concurrent Session will recognize that barriers to achieving gender equality run outside as well as inside education systems and that putting gender at the center requires working with diverse partners to look at the role of education in addressing harmful gender norms and stereotypes. Harmful gender norms and stereotypes not only hamper gender equality but also fuel adverse education outcomes. In so doing, the discussion will focus on gender stereotypes in schools and how utilizing education can help children and young people grow into equal, just and non-violent citizens, while also advancing the agenda on gender equality in, to and through education systems and schools to achieve gender-transformative education. Discussions will bridge the gap between education and gender communities and link conversations with justice, systems and accountability to advance the global, national, local, school-level and youth centered efforts to address gender norms and end stereotypes in schools.

Session format: Whole System in a Room

Organized by Partner Coalition for Ending Gender Stereotypes in Schools (represented by Equimundo, Room to Read, UN Girls’ Education Initiative, Transform Education, UNICEF India, VVOB), Global Partnership for Education (GPE), Girls Not Brides, AU-CIEFFA, UNAIDS

The session will consist of introductions by each presenter describing the ethos and approach of their advocacy and programmatic work to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in and through schools, followed by a ‘talk show style’ discussion, which will include the introduction of a newly developed gender advocacy briefing on action on safe and gender transformative schools, and audience engagement and feedback. Each presenter will discuss their work through the lens of a specific case study/story exemplifying youth-, survivor- and locally-led advocacy and interventions.

Session format: Storytelling

Organized by Together for Girls