About Us
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Shape and Harmonize Continental Action Agendas
- It provides a regular high-level platform to advance and harmonize African Union Member States’ commitments to girls’ and women’s education with continental and global frameworks, such as the AU Agenda 2063 and SDGs 4 and 5.
- Support policy harmonization, peer learning, and the adoption of common standards across countries.
- Influence education, gender equality, digital transformation, and skills policies through evidence-based recommendations.
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Monitor Progress and Ensure Accountability
- Serve as a biennial accountability mechanism to track progress on commitments, targets, and innovations related to access, retention, quality, learning outcomes, and completion for girls and women in Africa.
- Share data, lessons learned, and implementation challenges in order to support course correction.
- Celebrate progress while highlighting persistent gaps and emerging risks, such as the digital divide and AI-related exclusion.
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Promote Innovation, Research, and Evidence-Based Practices
- Provide a space to showcase innovative solutions, particularly in the areas of EdTech, artificial intelligence, digital skills, financing models, and community-led approaches.
- Bridge research, policy, and practice by translating evidence into actionable strategies.
- Encourage locally grounded and scalable solutions led by African institutions and professionals.
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Strengthen Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships
- Bring together governments, AU organs, development partners, civil society, youth groups, academia, and the private sector to build strategic partnerships.
- Promote co-investment, joint programmes, and cross-sector collaboration, particularly in STEM, ICT, TVET, and teacher professional development.
- Create an enabling framework for public-private partnerships aimed at expanding access to education and improving its quality.
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Amplify the Voice and Leadership of Girls and Women
- Place emphasis on the lived experiences, leadership, and aspirations of girls and women, including youth perspectives.
- Promote girls and women as agents of change, innovators, and co-creators of education systems, rather than merely as beneficiaries.
- Strengthen advocacy and visibility for marginalized groups across all regions and contexts.
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Address Current and Future Challenges
- Anticipate and respond to emerging trends shaping education, such as artificial intelligence, climate change, conflict, migration, and labour market transformations.
- Ensure that girls and women are not left behind in digital and technological transformations.
- Promote future-ready skills, lifelong learning, and resilience.
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Mobilize Political Will and Sustainable Financing
- Strengthen high-level political commitment to sustained investment in girls’ and women’s education.
- Support dialogue on innovative and sustainable financing mechanisms, including domestic resource mobilization and blended financing.
- Align donor support with priorities defined at national and continental levels.
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Build a Pan-African Community of Practice
- Establish a continuous biennial cycle to foster knowledge exchange and collective learning.
- Strengthen institutional capacities through networks, follow-up actions, and thematic initiatives between conferences.
- Ensure momentum, continuity, and long-term impact beyond one-off events.
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