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FAWE - Forum for African Women Educationalists
high-level advocacy, social mobilization, and
capacity-building in favour of girls’ and women’s
participation in education. iMission:
ihigh-level
Activities: a functioning national organization of committed
women educationalists, research to enlighten govern-
ment policy, annual prize awards, bursary for girls
(some 1,200 awards over the years), promotion of girls’
participation in mathematics and science, counselling
and assertiveness training for girls and women.
Challenges: ‘There is still a lot more to be done’.
CRDA - Catholic Relief and Development
Association
Mission: an umbrella organization of 215 local and inter-
national NGOs providing a more enabling environment
for NGOs to work effectively.
tion bureaux, to enhance the achievement of girls
in mathematics and the natural sciences.
low level of awareness at the grass-roots level,
‘gender gap not getting narrower’.
iChallenges:
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Oromia (regional) Education Bureau
Responsibilities: working closely with women bureaux in
all other sectors to promote the education of girls.
Achievements: gender awareness training for teachers in
cluster schools, for relay to satellite schools, and
even to mobile schools, assertiveness training for
women teachers, provision of desks to schools, as
reward for promoting the retention of girls, tutorial
services to female students.
Challenges: retention still a major problem, regional dis-
parities in the participation of girls still strong.
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