On 4th-5th March 2025, UNESCO and University College London (UCL) co-organised an Expert Group Meeting to address the critical need to improve cross-country data on gender equality and education. This was held at the UCL Institute of Education in London.
This meeting represented a key turning point for the follow-up to the landmark Call to Action of the UN Secretary-General’s Transforming Education Summit (TES) 2022, which urged partners to strengthen accountability mechanisms and evidence-based monitoring of progress in implementing gender-transformative education. In this context, the multi-stakeholder initiative, the Global Platform for Gender Equality in and through Education, co-led by UNESCO and UNICEF, is working to make progress in this area and to fill data gaps on key aspects of the educational experience.
Within this framework, the meeting brought together experts to identify and discuss ways to move forward in improving global indicators on gender equality and education, and to fill gaps identified as relevant to the TES Call to Action.
In particular, the specific objectives of the expert group meeting were to:
- Share updates and discuss complementary strands of work on improving global indicators on gender and education, including:
– Development of a globally relevant indicator on curricula and gender equality
– AI project on curricula and policy materials on gender equality in education
– Exploration innovative sources for new global indicators - Explore ways of connecting this work with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and post-SDG processes.
The meeting report can be downloaded here.