ICAE GENDER AND EDUCATION GLOBAL CONSULTATION “The GEO Contribution for building a World Worth Living In”

14th June 2011, 9hs -17.30hs
West Room at the Stadionmässan Conference Centre, Malmö, Sweden

CONCEPT NOTE

Proponent:
The Gender and Education Office of ICAE arises from the women’s programme organised soon after the Council started off. The creation of GEO was a deepening of that programme taking into account that three important feminist networks took part in its foundation: the Network of Popular Education among Women of Latin America and the Caribbean (REPEM), the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) and DAWN-Southeast Asia. This gave it a global strength and a very broad feminist vision. GEO´s mission is to mainstream gender in the Adult Education sector, to ensure that women are granted the right to lifelong learning and to participation as active citizens. This mission is reflected in the following objectives: (i) To monitor and follow up international agreements on gender, education and lifelong learning; (ii) To mainstream gender in different global and regional spaces such as the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE), UNESCO, World Social Forum, World Education Forum, UN Conferences, Global Campaigns for Education and UN Literacy Decade, Global Call to Action Against Poverty – GCAP/ FTF; (iii) To implement a comprehensive and systematic approach to education for inclusion from a gender perspective and promote connections among the agendas; (iv) To secure the right to education in women and feminist movements activities and in the different scenarios of global governance; (v) To support GEO members around the world to achieve the above mentioned goals though an ICT and communications strategy.

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