Evidence-Based Advocacy - United Nations Girls' Education Initiative

Acknowledgements
This learning guide is an outcome of a Workshop on Evidence-based Advocacy for Gender Equity and
Equality in Education held in Bangkok, Thailand, 8-12 September 2009. The workshop was attended by
participants from nine countries from the East-Asia Pacific region, namely, Cambodia, Lao DPR,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Viet Nam. Resource
persons were invited from the Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education (ASPBAE),
UNESCO, UNICEF and Save the Children. The East Asia and Pacific Regional UNGEI Working Group (EAP
UNGEI) wishes to extend its sincere gratitude to all participants and resource persons, both during and
after the workshop, for their substantive contributions to the format, the detailed structure of the
report, and the compilation of the resource list. Special thanks also to valued resource persons present
at the GENIA Toolkit Expert Review Workshop that was concurrently running with this workshop. Their
guidance and technical contributions enriched the contents of this guide.
This report was prepared by Chemba Raghavan, the lead facilitator of the workshop, without whose
dedication to UNGEI’s mission, this guide would not have materialized. The guide is based on the content
of the presentations and discussions at the workshop, with extensive review and inputs provided by
technical experts and professionals – past and present– representing partner agencies within the East
Asia and Pacific Regional United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI). Special recognition goes to
Adrien Boucher, Anne-Marie Davies, Terry Durrnian, Cheryl Gregory Faye, Maki Hayashikawa, Jon Kapp,
Ashima Kapur, Geoff Keele, Kanitha Kongrukgreatiyos, Leotes Lugo, Mika Mansukhani, Cliff Meyers, Goy
Phumtim, Malisa Santigul, Shivangi Shrivastava, Cyrene Siriwardhana, Stephanie Sisson, Subramaniyam
Venkatraman, and other members of the EAP UNGEI Working Group, and last but not least, with very
special thanks to the support from Tanaporn Perapate.
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