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Astha Ramaiya Articles

Girls' Education Challenge - Working Paper, 2024

SIAS Publications, 2024

Ellen Hagerman and Ai-Ju Huang - Blog, December 2024

IEG & World Bank Group Publication - 2024

This evaluation assesses World Bank Group support to address gender inequalities between fiscal years 2012 and 2023.

IEG & World Bank - Blog

A new evaluation of a decade’s worth of World Bank Group support for gender equality offers insights and lessons to inform the implementation of the institution’s ambitious, new gender strategy.

Utthan & Edel Give Foundation Publication - 2024

This zine, commissioned by Utthan and supported by EdelGive Foundation, captures the essence of a qualitative evaluation,Transformative Narratives: Storytelling for Evaluation and Organizational Learning through a Gender Justice Lens, of a multi-themed project implemented by Utthan over 2021-2024.  Piloting Storytelling as a means of Learning & Evaluation has been of immense value to us as a team and the communities we serve.

Public school education and the struggle for gender equality in South Africa

The UNISA website carries these news ‘The Council of the University of South Africa (UNISA) is proud to announce that, in a move unprecedented since the establishment of the university 148 years ago, it will have its first female Principal and Vice Chancellor, Professor Puleng LenkaBula with effect from 01 January 2021.’

Whilst many people were elated with this appointment many of us who have been engaged in the struggle for gender equality felt that the appointment has been long overdue.

The high-profile appointment of women at universities, corporations and government is most welcomed and it should have been happening many years ago. But these historically significant appointments should not make us loose sight of major challenges in gender equality within the public-school system. The high dropout rate of girl children at primary school level needs to be a permanent agenda on gender equality.

At the moment my intention is not to provide a panacea for what has been a major challenge in the South African school system but rather to ask what forums exist/ can be created to continue to fight this struggle. For a start, I will be happy to hear from my colleagues on this topic.

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