Panafrican News Agency

G7 France/UNESCO Int'l Conference - Innovating for girls' and women's empowerment through education

Paris, France (PANA) - Girls’ education is one of the most effective investments for development, yielding not only individual but also broadersocietal benefits.

 

Despite considerable progress in closing gender gaps in education, 132
million girls remain out of school, with Poverty, gender-based violence,
early marriage and pregnancy, conflict and restrictive gender norms among
the barriers creating walls of exclusion for far too many girls.

 

The G7 France-UNESCO International Conference Innovating for girls’ and
women’s empowerment through education, holding on Friday, 5 July, 2019,  comes in the context of the G7 Education-Development joint ministerial
meeting.

 

Organized by the French G7 Presidency, in cooperation with UNESCO, the
conference aims to:

 

Highlight concrete and innovative initiatives and solutions to improve
girls’ and women’s access to quality education and learning opportunities
that empower and build knowledge and skills for life and decent work.
    

Provide space for new collaboration initiatives to advance girls’ and
women’s empowerment in and through education.
    

Galvanize collective action to deliver on the 2030 Agenda commitments to
girls’ education, women’s empowerment and gender equality.

 

Interlinking education, infrastructure, health and nutrition issues,
enhancing skills and access to work through science and digital
technologies, and innovating to break stereotypes, will be three major
themes addressed during the event.

-0- PANA VAO 5July2019