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The Global Education Monitoring Report  - Gender Review: Creating Sustanaible Futures for all - UNESCO 2016.

The 2016 edition of the GEM Report provides valuable insight for governments and policy makers to monitor and accelerate progress towards Sustainable Development Goal on education (SDG 4), building on the indicators and targets we have, with equity and inclusion as measures of overall success.

This Report makes three messages starkly clear.

• Firstly, the urgent need for new approaches. On current trends only 70% of children in low income countries will complete primary school in 2030, a goal that should have been achieved in 2015. We need the political will, the policies, the innovation and the resources to buck this trend.
• Secondly, if we are serious about SDG 4, we must act with a sense of heightened urgency, and with long-term commitment. Failure to do so will not only adversely affect education but will hamper progress towards each and every development goal: poverty reduction, hunger eradication, improved health, gender equality and women’s empowerment, sustainable production and consumption, resilient cities, and more equal and inclusive societies.
• Lastly, we must fundamentally change the way we think about education and its role in human well-being and global development. Now, more than ever, education has a responsibility to foster the right type of skills, attitudes and behavior that will lead to sustainable and inclusive growth.

The 2016 GEM Review provides recommendations on how to work for gender equality in education and tackle the gender stereotypes that are holding back sustainable development