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Advancing Gender Transformative Education: GI-ESCR at the  Africa Regional Action Workshop 2025 

Advancing Gender Transformative Education: GI-ESCR at the  Africa Regional Action Workshop 2025 

On  26-27 August 2025, the United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI)- Feminist Network for Gender Transformative Education, Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), in collaboration with Oxfam, Usawa Agenda, and Plan International, held the Africa Regional Action Workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. 

The two-day workshop provided a dynamic space to strengthen strategies and link local, national, regional, and global efforts to advance Gender Transformative Education (GTE). It highlighted the extraordinary capacity of education not only to enrich children and young people’s lives, but also to address broader issues disproportionately affecting girls and women, including health, child marriage, and gender-based violence. 

Through panels, youth-led moments, and collective discussions, participants reflected on how to rethink interventions and advocacy for gender equality through education. The deliberations underscored the importance of stronger structured engagement with policy makers, decolonising how we work, leveraging mechanisms under the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC), and approaches to ensuring sustainable financing for GTE. 

Our Associate Programme Officer- Africa, Roselyne  Onyango, participated in the workshop and facilitated a session on ‘Localisation of Funding and Ways of  Working.’ The session explored the funding challenges grassroots and smaller organisations face and their impact on advancing GTE. It invited participants to reflect on what localisation means for feminist GTE in their different contexts, barriers they see regarding how funding and partnerships are currently structured, and what feminist shift, big or small, could unlock more power and resources for grassroots movements and local actors.  

The workshop concluded with a call to action: to build a community of practice on GTE, strengthen strategic engagement with policymakers and stakeholders to ensure the implementation of gender equality policies and programmes, and a revised Regional Declaration for Africa that will be used to push for GTE across the continent. 

Our participation at this regional workshop reflects our commitment to fostering power-shifting and mutually beneficial discussions on economic, social, and cultural rights across local, regional, and international spaces. We believe it is essential to centre the perspectives of social and grassroots movements in our overall work. 

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