Gender inequalities

The Voices into Action (VIA) activity examined how to meaningfully involve the voices of learners and their families in educational decision-making processes. It aimed to:

• establish the background and rationale for the widely recognised need to involve learner and family voices in decision-making;
• identify how policy-makers and other stakeholders might meet this need in practice, in different countries and different contexts.

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While girls continue to face severe disadvantages and inequalities in education, the report shows that boys in many countries are at greater risk than girls of repeating grades, failing to complete different education levels and having poorer learning outcomes in school. No less than 132 million boys of primary and secondary school age are out of school. They urgently require support.