Gender Equality in Teaching and Education Management, A participatory qualitative research report by PRO-FEMMES TWESE HAMWE and VSO Rwanda

This research project, the working title for which was ‘Gender Equality in Teaching and Education Management’, was commissioned by VSO and the UNESCO-hosted International Task Force on Teachers for Education for All and made possible by funding from both commissioning organisations and from the UK’s National Union of Teachers who have long supported VSO’s Valuing Teachers research strand9 . A similar study has been conducted in Cameroon. The studies were commissioned after VSO and other members of the Task Force realised that while there is ample evidence on girls’ access to and performance in education, there is a dearth of evidence about the effect of gender inequalities among the teaching and education management staff on low-income countries’ ability to achieve the Millennium Development and Education for All gender-related goals.