Basic education and gender equality

The big picture

UNICEF's priorities in education

Early Childhood Education and School Readiness

Equitable Access

Quality of education and child-friendly schooling

Education in Emergencies and Post-Crisis Transitions

Data, monitoring and evaluation

Partnerships

What's new in education

Latest news

Seam Zone keeps Palestinian children in limbo, disrupting education

Countries learn from Nepal's 'Schools as Zones of Peace' programme

Partnership helps restore public services in rural Sri Lanka

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UNGEI: Gender and Skills Development: A Review - Since 2008, the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative conducts a gender review of the EFA Global Monitoring Report. The 2012 report focuses on skills development.

UNICEF plans to expand an innovative pre-school programme known as, ‘Getting Ready for School: a Child-to-Child Approach.’ The programme is a low-cost way to provide supplemental education to pre-schoolers, especially the most marginalized. Story and video >>

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Check out the Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children flyer by UNICEF and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics

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Child-Friendly Schools

Child-friendly schools (CFS) operate in the best interest of the child and give children opportunity to develop all their talents.

Back on Track

Back on Track is designed to support and furtherwork on education in emergencies and post-crisis transition countries.

Getting ready for school

The ‘Getting Ready for School: A child-to-child approach’ is an innovative and cost‐effective approach to early education.

School fee abolition

School fee abolition is a key strategy to increase children’s access to education.

Out-of-school

The Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children works towards achieving Universal Primary Education by 2015.

UN Girls' Education Initiative

UNGEI is a partnership of organizations committed to narrowing the gender gap in primary and secondary education.