The AGEE Framework has been developed through participatory consultations with key practitioners in education institutions, governments, civil society organisations, and bilateral and multilateral organisations working on gender and education. In this workshop with Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) partners in Kenya, we invited participants’ expertise and insights through discussion around applying the AGEE Framework at the project level, and how it might facilitate measuring and sustaining girls’ education projects in Kenya. The workshop was designed to be useful and interesting to those involved in designing, delivering and measuring girls’ education projects, and particularly those currently developing or honing measurement frameworks/ tools.
The aim of this workshop was not to review the GEC project but to leverage experiences and lessons learned to inform good practice and wider thinking about gender equality and sustainability in education in Kenya. One outcome of the workshop has been a working paper (that will shortly be published on the AGEE website), but more broadly we encouraged participants to join AGEE’s wider global community of practice.
The aims for this session, by working with participants with experience delivering Girls’ Education Challenge projects in Kenya, were:
- Discuss the AGEE Framework, how it was developed, and where it is going;
- Discuss how the AGEE domains may support (or not) conceptualising gender equality in education, and the measures/ indicators projects may select in Kenya;
- Discuss opportunities and challenges for developing a project level dashboard for evaluating gender equality in education in Kenya; and
- Discuss sustainability and the different ways to understand, measure, and support sustaining girls’ education in Kenya.