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UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education 2020 (Award of 50,000)

UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education 2020 (Award of 50,000)

China 26 May 2020
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OPPORTUNITY DETAILS

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Deadline
26 May 2020
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Opportunity funding
Full funding
Eligible Countries
This opportunity is destined for all countries
Eligible Region
All Regions

Benefits

  • An award of USD 50,000 each to help further their work in the area of girls’ and women’s education.
  • Prize directly contributes to the attainment of the 2030 Sustainable Development agenda, particularly SDG goals 4 on education and 5 on gender equality.
  • Promotion of the right to education of women.
  • Showcase leadership roles on gender equality.
  • It also supports UNESCO’s global priorities included in the Medium-term Strategy 2014-2021 and the Gender Equality Action Plan 2014-2021 (GEAP II), as well as the UNESCO Strategy for Gender Equality in and through Education (2019-2025).

Eligibilities

The nominations will only be considered if the project/program:

  • has a clear focus on advancing girls’ and women’s education, and the promotion of gender equality in and through education, and contributes to one or more of the five priority areas of the Prize:
    • Participation: Supporting girls to transition from primary education to lower-secondary education and to complete full basic education
    • Literacy: Supporting adolescent girls and young women to acquire literacy skills
    • Environment: Supporting the creation of a gender-responsive and safe teaching-learning environment
    • Teachers: Engaging teachers to be change agents with gender-responsive teaching attitudes and practices
  • Skills: Supporting girls and women to acquire knowledge/skills for life and work
    • has already been running for at least two years; and
    • shows evidence that it may be replicable, scalable and/or provide significant learning potential for initiatives in other contexts
Eligible Regions: Open for all

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