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Former Education Minister of South Sudan, Awut Deng Acuil, and Education.org's CEO, Dr Randa Grob-Zakhary, note that - despite improvements - progress towards gender equality is unequally distributed nationally and internationally. They outline scalable, cost-effective innovations, such as Accelerated Education Programmes, which are already working with communities - particularly those in underserved rural areas - to widen access to education for girls.
Education.org's Director of Research, Sophia D’Angelo argues that the evidence base in educational policymaking must be widened to include voices of the Global South.
Key takeaways from the ministerial roundtable organized by Education.org, along with GPE, the International Education Funders Group (IEFG) and the Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies, at the 2024 United Nations General Assembly’s Summit of the Future, to discuss how to address the shared goal of urgently supporting children and young people who are out of school.