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Gender sensitization is an ongoing activity and the
level of awareness is believed to be steadily rising.
Girls and women are embracing literacy and nonformal
basic education and are more strongly
represented in ongoing programmes than men.
nation’s pursuit of gender equality in education is
also qThe facing a number of challenges:
Regional disparities are a feature of the system.
Girls’ participation in formal basic education
is steadily improving, but this is related to the
extent to which schooling is embraced in specific
localities. With the pilot projects, for example,
rural pilot schools are believed to be making
an improvement when barely 36 per cent of
learners are girls.
The pockets of resistance to Western education
and to schooling by girls are still quite strong,
while poverty is an inhibiting factor to decisions
by families to invest in the education of girls.
Resources are scarce, as the country has numerous
other areas of human welfare needing attention.
the fact still remains that Mozambican zHowever,
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ties are seriously rebuilding the nation. Education (and
basic education for women and girls) is an
integral zwever,
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zparticularly element of this national rebuilding exercise.
The ongoing EFA master planning process should be an
for consolidating the gains already made, for
a frontal attack strategy on the major challenges
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odesigning most especially, the question of regional disparities
attitudes to education in general and to the education
girls and women in particular.
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