Implementing UNGEI in the MENA Region

Abstract

The Girls’ Education Initiative (GEI) is one of the main flagships of UNICEF, and it is fitting that the first publication in the Learning Series on educational innovation in the MENA region – an initiative of the UNICEF Regional Office in Amman – focused on one country’s achievements in implementing GEI. UNICEF’s Regional director, Ms Sigrid Kaag, acknowledged that much is being done by the region to close the gender gap in access to schooling. Statistics suggest, however, that the battle to ensure gender parity is far from over, and that countries in the region have much to learn from each other in their attempt to understand and combat genderbased inequality.