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Mongolia Compact Gender Summary Report: Best Practices And Lessons Learned‣ Public Relations: Plans were made to promote gender specific messages and messages onnon-traditional careers for girls in TVET, for example:o “My profession” TV episode was made demonstrating a girl who graduated from TVETand works at the Gobi LLC.ooAds for TVET featuring girl truck driversA gender training specifically dedicated for those school social workers and trainingmanagers of Mining Center of Excellences - approximately 10 VET schools jointlyorganized by MCA-ESA and VET PIU.5.4 Good Practices and Lessons learned and implications for future workon gender in TVET‣ Sex disaggregated data collected by schools using the MB1 form sent to the Ministry ofScience and Education and the Statistical office contains raw data on the number of femaleand male students that can be analyzed concerning the distribution of numbers of females andmales within sectors. What will be important is to use this information for policy makinggoing forward.‣ The wage gap in Mongolia indicates that men predominate in more highly paid sectors,including those prioritized for growth such as mining. One of the crucial areas of TVET tofocus is to advocate that women can choose to work with heavy machinery in mining sector,etc. The “Women Leadership in the economy” campaign calls on young girls and women tochoose non- traditional, more highly paid sectors. This is a top recommendation from MCA-ESA that is being integrated into the TVET sector strategy planning process.‣ Career guidance service development: Career counseling is ongoing, with positive feedbackfrom students. However, according to the individual interviews and FGDs it appears thatcareer counseling is not equally beneficial to every student. Therefore, specificrecommendations are included in the VET Sector Strategic Plan, for example, on coaching ofsocial workers in educating girls and their parents about career prospects and earningprospects of the different fields, and training of social workers in a gender sensitive planningapproach to school admissions. This is meant to enable females to be admitted to study insubjects leading to occupations in the economic sectors with the most promising and mosthighly paid job prospects.‣ Strengthened cooperation with Mongolian NGOs and professional organizations on genderintegration is encouraged. There should be gender balance in groups chosen for receivingspecial training or opportunities. From a qualitative point of view this participation should bemeaningful and needs based, and not only focus on numbers of female and male attendees.20Page 20 of 80