Resources for Education Advocacy

The impact of COVID 19 on adolescent girls in Africa is likely to have devastating long term effects.  The pandemic will exacerbate the inequalities already faced by young girls.  Read... Read more

Education Cannot Wait (ECW) and United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) recently announced they are teaming up to reach vulnerable children and youth caught in crisis-affected countries.... Read more

Good News!  At last year’s G7 Summit in Charlevoix, Québec, Canada committed $400 million to support education for girls and women, especially in crisis situations.  Just last week, at... Read more

This week Canada announced its first education project to be funded from the $400 million G7 Charlevoix Declaration on Quality Education made in June 2018.  The Honourable Maryam Monsef... Read more

Is access to lifelong learning crucial to older women in sub-Saharan Africa?  This area of human rights will be explored at the 10^th Session of the UN Open-ended Working... Read more

Have you ever thought of water as a feminist issue?

When women and girls have to spend many hours each day collecting water for their families it is harder for them to go to school or work... Read more

Prime Minister Trudeau has announced that Canada will champion girls' education in crisis situations at the G7 Summit in June – backed by a significant financial investment.  This... Read more

Schools do not exist in social isolation... Read more

Can you even imagine for a moment what your life would be like if you could not read?  Florence Cheptoo, who lives in a village in rural Kenya, learned to read at age 60 when her... Read more

This Thanksgiving, we Canadians have so much to be thankful for.  Many of us are grateful  for the wonderful teachers that have influenced us and given us the knowledge and tools to... Read more

According to environmental activist Paul Hawken of Project Drawdown, the number one solution to global warming is not an innovative clean energy technology, but the empowering of women... Read more

5,000,000 Canadian children will head back to school this week to well-trained teachers, a holistic curriculum, the latest technology and new friends.  But almost 100,000,000 sub-Saharan... Read more

The G20 Leaders' Declaration in Hamburg, Germany on July 8th included a commitment to step up and improve education financing.  Now, all that is needed is commitment, innovative thinking, and... Read more

Great news! Belgium, has become the first country to make a commitment of funds to the Global... Read more

An extra $60 million a year to Canadian corporations that invest in 'Africa" does not make up for the Government’s failure to increase aid funding in the 2017 budget. 

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Let's Get 130 million Girls into School!

Each girl who cannot go to school today is a precious daughter and grandaughter. As we celebrate all the advances that have made in recent... Read more

For Signing the Safe Schools Declaration

This February Canada became the 59th country to sign on to the Safe Schools Declaration, an international political commitment to protect students,... Read more

It has been an exceptional year for the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). The GPE welcomed four new partner countries, funded US$4.6 billion in grants to over 50 countries, trained over 240,... Read more

Great News! Millions more children in sub Saharan Africa will soon be able to go to school.

The Board of Directors of the Global Partnership for Education approved US$90.6 million to... Read more

This week we celebrate the International Day of the Girl Child. We reflect on how far we have come and bring awareness to all of the challenges that still remain to fully achieve gender equality.... Read more

Around the world, schools are attacked or being occupied by military forces in conflict zones.  This is having a devastating effect on children endangering their lives, their teachers’... Read more

This week over 5 million Canadian children and youth will head back to school looking forward to another year of learning.  However, GRAN's thoughts are with the 62 million girls... Read more