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The 2019 Gender Report is based on a monitoring framework first introduced in the 2016 Global Education Monitoring Report. In addition to focusing on gender parity in education participation, attainment and learning achievement, the framework examine ...

Education reforms can only be effective if countries have the capacities to make them operational, with not just trained staff, but with effective organizational processes, functioning institutions and the existence of tools and resources to plan, im ...

The report highlights key gender gaps and obstacles to decent work for women. It explores the structural barriers, including unpaid care work, that shape the nature and extent of women’s engagement in paid employment, and examines how laws, policie ...

This report provides an overview of global and regional trends in employment, unemployment, labour force participation and productivity.

The report is organized into five sections. The first section synthesizes the key points from the Brussels Declaration as well as the debates and discussions from GEM 2018, clustering them around some of the main characteristics of education in the 2 ...

The UNESCO Operational Strategy on Youth for 2014-2021 (OSY) guides the Organization’s work on Youth in the different strands of work within UNESCO’s mandate. It aims to ensure that young women and men are engaged in policies and programmes that ...

UNESCO Beirut and Regional Bureau for Education in the Arab States
As a Regional Bureau for Education, UNESCO Beirut (UBO) provides support to the Arab Region to improve the quality and relevance of education and learning and promote a holistic approach to education encompassing all levels, pathways and modes of del ...

This report reviews women’s entrepreneurship development in the MENA region by providing a detailed assessment of the barriers that women face when starting a business and the landscape of active labour market policies (ALMPs) available to facilita ...

The guide offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the topics of results measurement and impact assessment, their practical application in the youth employment field and how evidence created via results measurement strategies can lead to ...

The “Women’s and Youth Empowerment in Rural Tunisia” study uses, for the first time in the Arab world, the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) to investigate the topic of gender equality. The study employs a large-scale survey of ...

If the right policies are in place, labour migration can help countries respond to shifts in labour supply and demand, stimulate innovation and sustainable development, and transfer and update skills. However, a lack of international standards regard ...

The past 20 years have witnessed some progress for women in the world of work and in terms of gender equality in society. This report looks at the progress (or lack thereof) made during the past decade and assesses women’s labour market prospects.

This report examines the evolution of real wages around the world, giving a unique picture of wage trends globally and by region.

A New Framework for Education in the Middle East and North Africa
This book highlights the comprehensive reforms awaiting MENA’s education systems arrives at a time of profound thought on the region, its potential, its future, and its place in a fast changing and fast-paced world. This book on the comprehensive r ...

As part of the GAP on ESD Partner Network 4 on mobilizing and engaging youthaction plan, and in collaboration with UNESCO Beirut office and UNESCO Headquarters, ODDD ngo (UNESCO GAP on ESD Key partner) is ...

Incorporating the most recent employment trends for young women and men, Global Employment Trends for Youth sets out the youth labour market situation around the world. It shows where progress has or has not been made, updates world and regional yout ...

This report provides a broad situational analysis for use by policy-makers, social partners and other key stakeholders involved in the promotion of youth employment-related policies and programmes in North Africa. Regional trends and features have ...

This report seeks to improve our understanding of the involvement of trade unions in the domain of TVET and skills development at the national, sectoral and enterprise levels. It does this through case studies of ten countries at different stages of ...

Regional Report
The Sixth International Conference on Adult education(CONFINTEA VI), held in Brazil in December 2009, closed with the adoption of the Belém Framework for Action, which recorded the commitments of Member States and presented a strategic gui ...

Plan for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

This biennial report provides a comprehensive overview of UNESCO-UNEVOC’s activities in technical and vocational education and training in 2012-2013. As in previous years, UNESCO-UNEVOC undertook a range of activities promoting TVET development ...

Promising Practices in TVET and Entrepreneurship Education in the Arab States. 19–21 November 2013, Beirut, Lebanon
UNESCO-UNEVOC and UNESCO Regional Bureau, Beirut, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Lebanon (General Directorate for Vocational and Technical Education, GDVTE, and Center for Educational Research and Development, CER ...

A joint project between UNESCO and StratREAL Foundation, UK
The regional synthesis report on Component II of the initiative highlights the results and outcomes of the project in the four participating countries, namely Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Oman. The regional experiences reflect a growing importance to ...