Gender Equality in Education
Safe Schools Program Sponsors Symposium on School-Related Gender-Based Violence
September 16, 2008: USAID's Safe Schools Program sponsored a day-long symposium to share the results of work done over the past five years to reduce school-related gender-based violence. The goal of the symposium was to promote interventions that increase educational quality for girls and boys worldwide and that have implications for reducing risk to HIV infection and empowering adolescent girls.
Symposium Highlights
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A capacity audience heard presentations from Safe Schools project staff and partners from Ghana and Malawi.
- A welcome address in the morning was given by USAID Counselor Lisa Chiles.
- The Keynote was delivered by Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY).
- A luncheon speech was made by Malawian Deputy Ambassador Kena Mphonda.
- Closing commentaries were offered from EGAT/WID, as well as from representatives of the Basic Education Coalition, the Global AIDS Alliance, and the UN Foundation.
Symposium Presentations
To view the PowerPoint presentations from the symposium’s plenary and breakout sessions, please go to http://www.devtechsys.com/gender_symposium/.
To read USAID Counselor Lisa Chiles’ remarks at the symposium, please go to http://www.usaid.gov/press/speeches/2008/sp080916.html.
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