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<div id="toc"><h2>Table of Contents</h2>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_background"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Background</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_present-condition"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Present Condition</span></a>
<ul>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_primary-education"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Primary Education</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_secondary-education"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Secondary Education</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_regional-differences"><span class="tocnumber">2.2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Regional Differences</span></a></li>
</ul>
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</ul>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_inhibiting-factors"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Inhibiting Factors</span></a>
<ul>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_primary-education_2"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Primary Education</span></a>
<ul>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_gender"><span class="tocnumber">3.1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Gender</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_poverty"><span class="tocnumber">3.1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Poverty</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_child-mortality"><span class="tocnumber">3.1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Child mortality</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_malnutrition"><span class="tocnumber">3.1.4</span> <span class="toctext">Malnutrition</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_child-labor"><span class="tocnumber">3.1.5</span> <span class="toctext">Child Labor</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_child-marriage"><span class="tocnumber">3.1.6</span> <span class="toctext">Child Marriage</span></a></li>
</ul>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_secondary-education_2"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Secondary Education</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_language"><span class="tocnumber">3.2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Language:</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_gender_2"><span class="tocnumber">3.2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Gender:</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_poverty_2"><span class="tocnumber">3.2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Poverty:</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_child-labor_2"><span class="tocnumber">3.2.4</span> <span class="toctext">Child Labor:</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_child-marriage_2"><span class="tocnumber">3.2.5</span> <span class="toctext">Child Marriage:</span></a></li>
</ul>
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</ul>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_international-gender-parity-and-equality-protocols"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">International Gender Parity and Equality Protocols</span></a>
<ul>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_primary-education_3"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Primary Education</span></a>
<ul>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_millennium-development-goal-2-achieve-universal-primary-education"><span class="tocnumber">4.1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Millennium Development Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_education-for-alleducation-for-all"><span class="tocnumber">4.1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Education for All[Pagelink infos="Education for All|"]</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-4"><a href="#w_goal-1"><span class="tocnumber">4.1.2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Goal 1</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-4"><a href="#w_goal-2"><span class="tocnumber">4.1.2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Goal 2</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-4"><a href="#w_goal-3"><span class="tocnumber">4.1.2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Goal 3</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-4"><a href="#w_goal-4"><span class="tocnumber">4.1.2.4</span> <span class="toctext">Goal 4</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-4"><a href="#w_goal-5"><span class="tocnumber">4.1.2.5</span> <span class="toctext">Goal 5</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-4"><a href="#w_goal-6"><span class="tocnumber">4.1.2.6</span> <span class="toctext">Goal 6</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_dakar-framework-for-actiondakar-framework-for-action"><span class="tocnumber">4.1.3</span> <span class="toctext">[Pagelink infos="Dakar Framework for Action|Dakar Framework for Action"]</span></a></li>
</ul>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_secondary-education_3"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Secondary Education</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_millennium-development-goal-3"><span class="tocnumber">4.2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Millennium Development Goal 3:</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_education-for-all"><span class="tocnumber">4.2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Education for All</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-4"><a href="#w_goal-1_2"><span class="tocnumber">4.2.2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Goal 1</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-4"><a href="#w_goal-2_2"><span class="tocnumber">4.2.2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Goal 2</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-4"><a href="#w_goal-3_2"><span class="tocnumber">4.2.2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Goal 3</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-4"><a href="#w_goal-4_2"><span class="tocnumber">4.2.2.4</span> <span class="toctext">Goal 4</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-4"><a href="#w_goal-5_2"><span class="tocnumber">4.2.2.5</span> <span class="toctext">Goal 5</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-4"><a href="#w_goal-6_2"><span class="tocnumber">4.2.2.6</span> <span class="toctext">Goal 6</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_dakar-framework-for-actiondakar-framework-for-action_2"><span class="tocnumber">4.2.3</span> <span class="toctext">[Pagelink infos="Dakar Framework for Action|Dakar Framework for Action"]</span></a></li>
</ul>
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</ul>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_statistical-indicators"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Statistical Indicators</span></a>
<ul>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_primary-education_4"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">Primary Education</span></a>
<ul>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_primary-enrolment-ratio"><span class="tocnumber">5.1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Primary Enrolment Ratio</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_primary-completion-rate"><span class="tocnumber">5.1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Primary Completion Rate</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_gender-parity-index-gpi"><span class="tocnumber">5.1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Gender Parity Index (GPI)</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_gross-intake-rate-gir"><span class="tocnumber">5.1.4</span> <span class="toctext">Gross Intake Rate (GIR)</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#w_net-enrollment-ratio-nernet-enrollment-ratio-ner"><span class="tocnumber">5.1.5</span> <span class="toctext">[Pagelink infos="Net Enrolment Ratio (NER)|Net Enrolment Ratio (NER)"]</span></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_secondary-education_4"><span class="tocnumber">5.2</span> <span class="toctext">Secondary Education</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_gender-parity-index-gpi_2"><span class="tocnumber">5.3</span> <span class="toctext">Gender Parity Index (GPI)</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_gross-enrollment-rate-ger"><span class="tocnumber">5.4</span> <span class="toctext">Gross Enrollment Rate (GER)</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_gross-intake-rate-gir_2"><span class="tocnumber">5.5</span> <span class="toctext">Gross Intake Rate (GIR)</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_net-enrollment-ratio-ner"><span class="tocnumber">5.6</span> <span class="toctext">Net Enrollment Ratio (NER)</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_references"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_see-also"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">See Also</span></a></li>
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</div><h1 id="w_background">Background</h1>
<p>[Image infos="Primary_education_crowded.jpg|thumb|right|267x200px"] According to >_>Pagelink infos=UNESCO|UNESCO]'s Global Education Digest in 2010, enrollment in sub-Saharan Africa increased significantly at all education levels between 1999 and 2006. Overall, sub-Saharan Africa, like the Arab States, South and West Asia, still lags behind other regions in terms of distance from universal education. <ref>UNESCO Global Education Digest 2010 http://www.uis.unesco.org/library/pages/default.aspx?docID=530</ref>
</p><p>While sub-Saharan Africa is also lacking in the attainment of many [Pagelink infos="Millennium Development Goals|Millennium Development Goals"] (MDGs), many believe that progress in education could help unlock progress on the MDGs, but will require a strengthened commitment to equity. <ref><ref name="E">UNESCO. (2009). Education For All Global Monitoring Report. UNESCO.</ref> </ref>Persistent inequalities are hindering progress towards the [Pagelink infos="Education for All|Education For All"] (EFA) goals at global, regional and national levels. The EFA Global Monitoring Report 2009 finds that within countries, disparities based on wealth, location, gender, immigration or minority status or disability are the main factors which deny millions of children a good-quality education.<br />
</p><p>Increasing the levels of participation in secondary education are explicit goals of the Dakar Framework for Action, as well as MDG 3 on gender parity and equality. Unfortunately, progress in secondary education in Sub-Saharan Africa isn’t growing as quickly as [Pagelink infos="Primary Education in Sub-Saharan Women and African Economic Development|Primary Education in Sub-Saharan Women and African Economic Development"]. <ref name="E">UNESCO. (2009). Education For All Global Monitoring Report. UNESCO.</ref> 
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<h1 id="w_present-condition">Present Condition</h1>
<h3 id="w_primary-education">Primary Education</h3>
<p>However, progress is being made. The number of children entering primary school in sub-Saharan Africa has climbed sharply since 2000. In 2006, more than 23 million of the region’s children entered a classroom for the first time – an increase of some 7 million over the level in 1999. Sub-Saharan Africa’s Gross Intake Rate (GIR), which registers the number of new entrants regardless of age, recorded the biggest increase in the world between 1999 and 2006, by twenty-two percentage points. As intake has risen, so has overall enrollment in primary education. Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for the world’s highest increase in total primary enrollment, which rose by 42% during the period. The [Pagelink infos="Net Enrolment Ratio (NER)|Net-Enrollment Ratio (NER)"] for primary education in sub-Saharan Africa has risen from 56% in 1999 to 70% in 2006. <ref>UNESCO, (2009), Education for All Global Monitoring Report. UNESCO.</ref>
</p><p>But there is still a long way to go. In 2006, sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 47% of the world's out-of-school population.&nbsp; While the number of primary school aged children out-of-school has dropped by 10 million since 1999, there were still 35 million children of primary school age in sub-Saharan Africa not enrolled in 2006, about one-third of this population.&nbsp; <ref name="EFAGMR" /><br />
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<h3 id="w_secondary-education">Secondary Education</h3>
<p>For the school year ending in 2005, the median transition rate from primary to secondary was 62%. And it was noticeably lower for girls (57%) than for boys (66%).<ref name="E" /> 
</p><p>Overall, enrollment in secondary education is rising in sub-Saharan Africa, with 12 million more students in 2006 than in 1999, up from 20.6 million to 32.6 million. However, despite this significant trend, the average secondary [Pagelink infos="Net Enrolment Ratio (NER)|Net Enrolment Ratio (NER)"] in sub-Saharan Africa was 25% in 2006. This implies that nearly 78 million of the region’s secondary school-age children were not enrolled in secondary school.<ref name="E" /> 
</p><p>Gender disparities against girls are highest in Benin, [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Ivory Coast|Côte d’Ivoire"], Ethiopia, Guinea, Mali, and [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Gender Equality in Togo|Gender Equality in Togo"], with fewer than 60 girls per 100 boys entering secondary education.<ref name="WB">Sutherland-Addy, E. (2008). Gender Equity in Junior and Senior Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa. The World Bank, The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Washington D.C.: The World Bank.</ref><br />
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<h4 id="w_regional-differences">Regional Differences</h4>
<p>The regional average figure conceals significant differences between countries. For example, while secondary NER levels in 2006 were less than 20% in [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Gender Equality in Burkina Faso|Gender Equality in Burkina Faso"], [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Gender Equality in Madagascar|Gender Equality in Madagascar"], [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Gender Equality in Mozambique|Gender Equality in Mozambique"], the [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Gender Equality in Niger|Gender Equality in Niger"] and [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Gender Equality in Uganda|Gender Equality in Uganda"], they were over 80% in [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Gender Equality in Mauritius|Gender Equality in Mauritius"] and [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Seychelles|Seychelles"]. Participation in secondary education increased between 1999 and 2006 in most of the twenty-nine countries with data, and particularly in [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Gender Equality in Benin|Gender Equality in Benin"], [Pagelink infos="Ethiop|Gender Equality in Ethiopia"], the [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Gender Equality in Gambia|Gender Equality in Gambia"], [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Gender Equality in Guinea|Gender Equality in Guinea"] and Mauritius secondary [Pagelink infos="Gross Enrollment Ratio|Gross Enrollment Ratios"] (GERs) rose by thirteen percentage points or more. On the other hand, substantial decreases were recorded in [Pagelink infos="Malawi|Malawi"], where the secondary GER declined from 36% to 29% during the period.<ref name="E" /> 
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<h1 id="w_inhibiting-factors">Inhibiting Factors</h1>
<h2 id="w_primary-education_2">Primary Education</h2>
<p>What happens during the very early years of a child’s life is vital for later success in education and in life. Programs of early childhood care and education (ECCE) can support health and nutrition, facilitate cognitive development and give children the basic tools they need to learn and to overcome disadvantage. Yet millions of children in sub-Saharan Africa are held back by problems in health and nutrition, and access to pre-school provision remains limited and unequal.<br />
</p><p>Many factors inhibiting universal [Pagelink infos="Access to Education|access to primary education"] are gender-based, though many, and sometimes more important factors, are not. Often, wealth, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, rural habitation, [Pagelink infos="Child Labor|child labour"], health barriers and language are important factors regarding attendance and access to primary education in Sub-Saharan Africa. The issues faced which are solely experienced by or which disproportionately affect girls are the issues of [Pagelink infos="Child marriage|early marriage"], pregnancy, [Pagelink infos="2009 2009 Social Institutions and Gender Index|cultural norms and practices"], and especially [Pagelink infos="Poverty in Focus: Gender Equality|poverty"]. Poverty weighs more heavily on girls than boys because it is generally an indicator of higher instances of the other inhibiting factors that girls face in Sub-Saharan Africa.&nbsp;Poverty is aligned with greater instances of [Pagelink infos="Child marriage|child marriage"], malnutrition, pregnancy, [Pagelink infos="Under-Five Mortality Rate|child mortality"], cultural preference for males and child labor; all of which magnify the negative affect on girls moreso than on boys in Sub-Saharan Africa. <ref name="EFAGMR" />
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<h5 id="w_gender">Gender<br /></h5>
<p>Girls’ limited access to school is of particular concern in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2006, they accounted for 54% of primary school-age children not in school in the region and 72% of them have never been enrolled, compared with 55% for boys. For example, girls’ access to school remains a big issue in [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Gender Equality in Nigeria|Gender Equality in Gender Equality in Nigeria"], where 69% of girls not in school are unlikely to enroll, compared with 31% for boys. Similar if somewhat smaller gender differences (about twenty percentage points or more) are found in [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Burundi|Gender Equality in Burundi"] and [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Guinea|Gender Equality in Guinea"]. <br />
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<h5 id="w_poverty">Poverty<br /></h5>
<p>Within countries there is a strong association between poverty and gender inequalities in education. Gender differences in net attendance rates tend to be wider for poorer households in countries with relatively low school attendance. For school attendance, poverty weighs more heavily on girls than boys – far more so, in some cases. For example, the attendance disparity ratios of the richest to poorest quintile are significantly higher for girls than for boys in [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Burkina Faso|Gender Equality in Burkina Faso"], [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Chad|Gender Equality in Chad"], [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Guinea|Gender Equality in Guinea"], [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Mali|Gender Equality in Mali"] and [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Niger|Gender Equality in Niger"]. These ratios say something important about the unequal distribution of opportunity. For example, in Mali girls from the richest households are four times more likely to be attending primary school than the poorest girls. <br />
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<h5 id="w_child-mortality">Child mortality</h5>
<p>While 10 million children die before the age of 5 each year, half of these children are in sub-Saharan Africa. On average, 158 out of every 1,000 children will die before the age of 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. <br />
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<h5 id="w_malnutrition">Malnutrition</h5>
<p>This has a large negative impact on achieving universal primary education. Progress in sub-Saharan Africa has been limited and between 1990-2006, 13 countries in the region have regressed in this category. One-third of all children in sub-Saharan Africa have been affected by stunting, and 23 countries have rates higher than 40%.<br />
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<h5 id="w_child-labor">Child Labor</h5>
<p>Around one-quarter of 5- to 14-year-olds in sub-Saharan Africa were engaged in child labor in 2004. Because population growth has increased faster than child labor rates have fallen, there were about 1 million more child laborers in 2004 than in 2000.<ref name="EFAGMR" /><br />
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<h5 id="w_child-marriage">Child Marriage</h5>
<p>As of 2004, [Pagelink infos="Child marriage|early marriage"] rates were higher in sub-Saharan African than any other region in the world. On average in the region, 52% of girls were married, divorced, or widowed by the age of 18. This rate varies widely from 18% in [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Botswana|Gender Equality in Botswana"], to nearly 80% in Niger. <ref>UNFPA. 2004. Child Marriage Advocacy Programme: Fact Sheet on Child Marriage and Early Union.</ref> 
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<h2 id="w_secondary-education_2">Secondary Education</h2>
<p>[Image infos="Secondary_education.jpg|thumb|right|386x256px"]Many factors inhibiting access to education are gender-based, though many, and sometimes more important factors, are not. Often, wealth, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, rural habitation, [Pagelink infos="Child Labor|child labor"], health barriers and language are important factors regarding attendance and access to secondary education in Sub-Saharan Africa. The issues faced disproportionately or solely by girls are the issues of [Pagelink infos="Child marriage|early marriage"], pregnancy, [Pagelink infos="2009 2009 Social Institutions and Gender Index|cultural norms and practices"], and especially [Pagelink infos="Poverty in Focus: Gender Equality|poverty"]. Poverty weighs more heavily on girls than boys because it is generally an indicator of higher instances of the other inhibiting factors that girls face in Sub-Saharan Africa.&nbsp; Poverty is aligned with greater instances of [Pagelink infos="Child marriage|child marriage"], malnutrition, pregnancy, [Pagelink infos="Under-Five Mortality Rate|child mortality"], cultural preference for males and child labor; all of which magnify the negative affect on girls more so than on boys in Sub-Saharan Africa. <ref name="E" /><br />
</p>
<h5 id="w_language">Language:</h5>
<p>Speaking an indigenous or non-official language remains a core marker for disadvantage in secondary education. For example, in [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Mozambique|Gender Equality in Mozambique"], 43% of people aged 16 to 49 who speak Portuguese (the language of instruction) have at least one grade of secondary schooling; among speakers of Lomwe, Makhuwa, Sena and Tsonga, the shares range from 6% to 16%. <ref name="E" />
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<h5 id="w_gender_2">Gender:<br /></h5>
<p>At the secondary level, gender gaps existed in all of the region’s countries with data in 2006 (except Mauritius and [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Gender Equality in Swaziland|Gender Equality in Swaziland"]), and the mean regional [Pagelink infos="Gender Parity Index|Gender Parity Index"] (GPI) was 0.80, slightly lower than in 1999 (0.82), as compared to 0.89 for primary education. Overall, sub-Saharan Africa has a combined low participation in secondary education and low GPIs. In Benin, [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Gender Equality in Eritrea|Gender Equality in Eritrea"], Ethiopia, [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Gender Equality in Mali|Gender Equality in Mali"] and [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Niger|Gender Equality in Niger"], the secondary GERs for girls were less than 70% of those for boys. On the other hand, [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Cape Verde|Cape Verde"], [Pagelink infos="Lesotho|Lesotho"], [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Gender Equality in Namibia|Gender Equality in Namibia"], [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Sao Tome and Principe|Sao Tome and Principe"], Seychelles and [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Gender Equality in South Women and African Economic Development|Gender Equality in South Women and African Economic Development"] had significant disparities favoring girls. <ref name="E" />Trends show a strong correlation between higher levels of expenditure in education and greater gender equity. There is also a strong correlation between more poor girls dropping out of secondary school due to school fees than poor boys or either gender with more wealth.<ref name="WB" /> 
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<h5 id="w_poverty_2">Poverty:<br /></h5>
<p>Within countries there is a strong association between poverty and gender inequalities in education. Gender differences in net attendance rates tend to be wider for poorer households in countries with relatively low school attendance. For school attendance, poverty weighs more heavily on girls than boys – far more so, in some cases. For example, in Mali girls from the richest households are eight times more likely to go to secondary school than those from the poorest households. <ref name="E" />
</p>
<h5 id="w_child-labor_2">Child Labor:<br /></h5>
<p>Around one-quarter of 5- to 14-year-olds in sub-Saharan Africa were engaged in child labor in 2004. Because population growth has increased faster than child labor rates have fallen, there were about 1 million more child laborers in 2004 than in 2000. <ref name="E" />
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<h5 id="w_child-marriage_2">Child Marriage:</h5>
<p>As of 2004, [Pagelink infos="Child marriage|early marriage"] rates were higher in sub-Saharan African than any other region in the world. On average in the region, 52% of girls were married, divorced, or [Pagelink infos="Widow|widowed"] by the age of 18. This rate varies widely from 18% in [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Gender Equality in Botswana|Gender Equality in Botswana"], to nearly 80% in Niger. <ref>UNFPA. 2004. Child Marriage Advocacy Programme: Fact Sheet on Child Marriage and Early Union.</ref> 
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</p><p>The [Pagelink infos="World Bank|World Bank"] adds that factors affecting the participation of girls in secondary include policy and direction of aid ﬂows at the international level, economic policies at the national level, family level economic decisions, and [Pagelink infos="Sociocultural norms|sociocultural norms"].<ref name="WB" /><br />
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<h1 id="w_international-gender-parity-and-equality-protocols">International Gender Parity and Equality Protocols<br /></h1>
<h2 id="w_primary-education_3">Primary Education</h2>
<h3 id="w_millennium-development-goal-2-achieve-universal-primary-education">Millennium Development Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education<br /></h3>
<p>The target of the Millennium Development Goal #2, is to "ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling."<ref>UNDG. (2003). Indicators for Monitoring the Millennium Development Goals. The United Nations. New York: The United Nations.</ref><br />
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<h3 id="w_education-for-alleducation-for-all">Education for All[Pagelink infos="Education for All|<br />"]</h3>
<p>[Pagelink infos="Education for All|Education for All"] (EFA )&nbsp;is a set of six internationally agreed upon goals which are used to address the main hurdles to achieving universal education, and more specifically universal primary education, and [Pagelink infos="Millennium Development Goals|Millennium Development Goal"] #2.<br />
</p><p>These six goals are:<br />
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<h4 id="w_goal-1">Goal 1<br /></h4>
<p>Expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children. 
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<h4 id="w_goal-2">Goal 2<br /></h4>
<p>Ensuring that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, children in difficult circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to, and complete, free and compulsory primary education of good quality. 
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<h4 id="w_goal-3">Goal 3<br /></h4>
<p>Ensuring that the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable access to appropriate learning and life-skills programs. 
</p>
<h4 id="w_goal-4">Goal 4<br /></h4>
<p>Achieving a 50 percent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women, and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults. 
</p>
<h4 id="w_goal-5">Goal 5<br /></h4>
<p>Eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, and achieving gender equality in education by 2015, with a focus on ensuring girls’ full and equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality. 
</p>
<h4 id="w_goal-6">Goal 6<br /></h4>
<p>Improving all aspects of the quality of education and ensuring excellence of all so that recognized and measurable learning outcomes are achieved by all, especially in literacy, numeracy and essential life skills.<ref name="EFAG">UNESCO. (2010). EFA Goals. Retrieved August 3, 2010, from UNESCO: http://www.unesco.org/en/efa/efa-goals/</ref><br />
</p>
<h3 id="w_dakar-framework-for-actiondakar-framework-for-action">[Pagelink infos="Dakar Framework for Action|Dakar Framework for Action"]</h3>
<p>In order to achieve the UNESCO EFA goals, the Dakar Framework for Action, agreed upon in 2000, sets out a two-part gender equity agenda: first, to achieve gender parity in school participation and second, to improve gender equality in educational opportunities and outcomes.<ref name="DFA">UNESCO. (2000, April). UNESCO- Education For All- The Dakar Framework for Action. Retrieved August 2, 2010, from UNESCO: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001211/121147e.pdf</ref> 
</p>
<h2 id="w_secondary-education_3">Secondary Education</h2>
<h3 id="w_millennium-development-goal-3">Millennium Development Goal 3:</h3>
<p>Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015. 
</p>
<h3 id="w_education-for-all">Education for All</h3>
<p>[Pagelink infos="Education for All|Education for All"] (EFA )&nbsp;is a set of six internationally agreed upon goals which are used to address the main hurdles to achieving universal education. 
</p><p>These six goals are:<br />
</p>
<h4 id="w_goal-1_2">Goal 1<br /></h4>
<p>Expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children. 
</p>
<h4 id="w_goal-2_2">Goal 2<br /></h4>
<p>Ensuring that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, children in difficult circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to, and complete, free and compulsory primary education of good quality. 
</p>
<h4 id="w_goal-3_2">Goal 3<br /></h4>
<p>Ensuring that the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable access to appropriate learning and life-skills programs. 
</p>
<h4 id="w_goal-4_2">Goal 4<br /></h4>
<p>Achieving a 50 percent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women, and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults. 
</p>
<h4 id="w_goal-5_2">Goal 5<br /></h4>
<p>Eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, and achieving gender equality in education by 2015, with a focus on ensuring girls’ full and equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality. 
</p>
<h4 id="w_goal-6_2">Goal 6<br /></h4>
<p>Improving all aspects of the quality of education and ensuring excellence of all so that recognized and measurable learning outcomes are achieved by all, especially in literacy, numeracy and essential life skills.<ref name="EFAG">UNESCO. (2010). EFA Goals. Retrieved August 3, 2010, from UNESCO: http://www.unesco.org/en/efa/efa-goals/</ref><br />
</p>
<h3 id="w_dakar-framework-for-actiondakar-framework-for-action_2">[Pagelink infos="Dakar Framework for Action|Dakar Framework for Action"]</h3>
<p>In order to achieve the UNESCO EFA goals, the Dakar Framework for Action, agreed upon in 2000, sets out a two-part gender equity agenda: first, to achieve gender parity in school participation and second, to improve gender equality in educational opportunities and outcomes.<ref name="DFA">UNESCO. (2000, April). UNESCO- Education For All- The Dakar Framework for Action. Retrieved August 2, 2010, from UNESCO: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001211/121147e.pdf</ref><br />
</p>
<h1 id="w_statistical-indicators">Statistical Indicators<br /></h1>
<h2 id="w_primary-education_4">Primary Education</h2>
<h3 id="w_primary-enrolment-ratio">Primary Enrolment Ratio<br /></h3>
<p>Primary Enrolment Ratio is defined as the ratio of females to males enrolled in primary education.&nbsp; It is based on a 1-point scale with 1 being gender parity.&nbsp; 
</p><p>OECD data is found here: [Statistics:School Enrolment].<br />
</p>
<h3 id="w_primary-completion-rate">Primary Completion Rate<br /></h3>
<p>Primary completion rate is the percentage of students completing the last year of primary school. It is calculated by taking the total number of students in the last grade of primary school, minus the number of repeaters in that grade, divided by the total number of children of official graduation age.<ref>http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.PRM.CMPT.FE.ZS/countries/latest?display=default The World Bank Group 2010. Primary completion rates, female (% of relevant age group). Retrieved 07 25, 2010, from The World Bank Data.</ref> 
</p><p>See [Pagelink infos="Primary Completion Rates"] for more.<br />
</p>
<ul><li><a href="http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.PRM.CMPT.MA.ZS" alt="Primary Completion Rates:Male">Primary Completion Rates:Male</a> 
</li><li><a href="http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.PRM.CMPT.FE.ZS/countries/latest" alt="Primary Completion Rates:Female">Primary Completion Rates:Female</a>
</li></ul>
<h3 id="w_gender-parity-index-gpi">Gender Parity Index (GPI)<br /></h3>
<p>The GPI is defined as the ratio of female to male values of a given indicator. A GPI of 1 indicates parity between sexes; a GPI above 1 indicates data in favor of females, while a GPI below 1 indicates data in favor of males. In sub-Saharan Africa, the primary school GPI&nbsp;rose from 0.85 in 1999 to 0.89 in 2006. 15 of the 41 countries in sub-Saharan Africa have achieved gender parity in the their primary education rates.<ref name="EFAGMR">UNESCO. (2009). Education For All Global Monitoring Report. UNESCO.</ref><br />
</p>
<h3 id="w_gross-intake-rate-gir">Gross Intake Rate (GIR)<br /></h3>
<p>Total number of new entrants to a given grade of primary education, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the population at the official school entrance age for that grade.<ref name="EFAGMR" /> <br />
</p>
<h3 id="w_net-enrollment-ratio-nernet-enrollment-ratio-ner">[Pagelink infos="Net Enrolment Ratio (NER)|Net Enrolment Ratio (NER)"]<br /></h3>
<p>Enrollment of the official age group for a given level of education, expressed as a percentage of the population in that age group.<ref name="EFAGMR" /> <br />
</p>
<h2 id="w_secondary-education_4">Secondary Education</h2>
<h2 id="w_gender-parity-index-gpi_2">Gender Parity Index (GPI)<br /></h2>
<p>The GPI is defined as the ratio of female to male values of a given indicator. A GPI of 1 indicates parity between sexes; a GPI above 1 indicates data in favor of females, while a GPI below 1 indicates data in favor of males. In sub-Saharan Africa, the secondary school GPI fell from 0.82 in 1999 to 0.80 in 2006. <ref name="E" />
</p>
<h2 id="w_gross-enrollment-rate-ger">Gross Enrollment Rate (GER)<br /></h2>
<p>The GER is defined as the total enrollment in a specific level of education, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the population in the official age group corresponding to this level of education. The GER can exceed 100% due to late entry or/and repetition. <ref name="E" /><br /><br />
</p>
<h2 id="w_gross-intake-rate-gir_2">Gross Intake Rate (GIR)<br /></h2>
<p>The GIR&nbsp;is defined as the total number of new entrants to a given grade of education, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the population at the official school entrance age for that grade.<ref name="E" /> <br />
</p>
<h2 id="w_net-enrollment-ratio-ner">Net Enrollment Ratio (NER)<br /></h2>
<p>The NER is defined as the enrollment of the official age group for a given level of education, expressed as a percentage of the population in that age group.<ref name="E" /> <br />
</p>
<h1 id="w_references">References</h1>
<p><references /><br />
</p>
<h1 id="w_see-also">See Also</h1>
<ul><li>[Pagelink infos="Primary Education in Sub-Saharan Women and African Economic Development"] 
</li><li>[Pagelink infos="Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Women and African Economic Development"] 
</li><li>[Pagelink infos="Millennium Development Goals"] 
</li><li>[Pagelink infos="Primary_Completion_Rates|Primary Completion Rates"]
</li><li>[Statistics:School Enrolment] 
</li><li>[Statistics:Education] 
</li><li>[Statistics:Literacy Rates] 
</li><li>[Pagelink infos="United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization"] 
</li><li>[Pagelink infos="Education for All"] 
</li><li>[Pagelink infos="Access to Education|Access to Education"] 
</li><li>[Pagelink infos="Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base Variables: School Enrolment|Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base Variables: School Enrolment"] 
</li><li>[Pagelink infos="Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base Variables: Literacy Rates|Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base Variables: Literacy Rates"] 
</li><li>[Pagelink infos="Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base Variables: Literacy Rates|GI"][Pagelink infos="Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base Variables: Political Empowerment|D Variables: Political Empowerment"] 
</li><li>[Pagelink infos="Maternal Mortality"] 
</li><li>[Pagelink infos="HIV/AIDS/AIDS|AIDS"] 
</li><li>[Pagelink infos="Adolescent Birth Rate"] 
</li><li>[Pagelink infos="Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector"] 
</li><li>[Pagelink infos="Under-Five Mortality Rate"] 
</li><li>[Pagelink infos="Net Intake Rate"] 
</li><li>[Pagelink infos="Net Enrolment Ratio (NER)"]
</li></ul>
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