Girls’ education research and policy symposium: Reaching the most marginalized
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Introduction and Opening Remarks
Introduction and Opening Remarks
Fireside Chat: Working with Maasai leaders to promote girls’ education in Maasailand
Addressing girls facing the quadruple burden: poverty, rurality, indigeneity and gender
Government approaches to the school reintegration of girl-child mothers
Presentation: Translating competencies to empowered action
Thinking beyond the girl in life skills approaches for empowerment
Morning Sessions
Morning Session Panel: Government approaches to the school reintegration of girl-child mothers
Afternoon Sessions
On November 8, the Center for Universal Education at Brookings (CUE) hosted the 2017 Girls’ Education Research and Policy Symposium: Reaching the Most Marginalized. Each year, CUE convenes policymakers, practitioners, and stakeholders in the girls’ education arena to discuss the most pressing issues as identified by the Echidna Global Scholars, a group of global leaders in girls’ education who spend 5 months in-residency at Brookings. The day was marked by a series of thematic conversations that explore approaches to ensuring that the most marginalized girls receive a quality education.
The panel discussions included brief presentations from the Echidna Global Scholars’ research on girls’ education in their home countries of India, Kenya, Jamaica, and Mexico, followed by a moderated discussion with other experts in their thematic areas. Each session ended with a Q&A, leaving time for panelists to take questions from the audience.
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Agenda
Introduction and Opening Remarks
Gene Sperling
American Rescue Plan Coordinator and Senior Advisor to the President - The White House
Founder - Center for Universal Education
Rebecca Winthrop
Director - Center for Universal Education
Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development
Fireside Chat: Working with Maasai leaders to promote girls’ education in Maasailand
Damaris Seleina Parsitau
2017 Echidna Global Scholar - The Brookings Institution
Board Member - World Bicycle Relief
Founder - Let Maasai Girls Learn
Addressing girls facing the quadruple burden: poverty, rurality, indigeneity and gender
(Concurrent Sessions)
María Cristina Osorio Vázquez
Georg Forster Research Fellow - University of Siegen
Affiliated Researcher - Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM), University of Twente
2017 Echidna Global Scholar - The Brookings Institution
Sofiya Zahova
Researcher - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages, University of Iceland
Government approaches to the school reintegration of girl-child mothers
(Concurrent Sessions)
Theresa Kaka Effa
Nigeria Country Representative - Rise Up
Dasmine Kennedy
Acting Regional Director - Ministry of Education and Youth, Jamaica
2017 Echidna Global Scholar - The Brookings Institution
Networking Lunch
Presentation: Translating competencies to empowered action
Thinking beyond the girl in life skills approaches for empowerment
Christina Kwauk
Former Brookings Expert
Head of Climate and Education - Unbounded Associates
Abigail Bucuvalas
Senior Director, Educational Programs for International Social Impact - Sesame Workshop
Aissatou Diallo
Program Manager, Girls' Initiatives - BRAC
Yukiko Sakurai
Chief, Adolescent Development and Participation - UNICEF Nepal
Closing Remarks
Rebecca Winthrop
Director - Center for Universal Education
Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development
Reception
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