Gender issues in education budgets

Translated description (provided by author): This edited book aims to examine a progress of gender equality in education in developing countries based on review of UNESCO initiatives and donors' foreign aid policy. Academia and NGO practitioners contributed to this book to bring academic and practical perspectives on gender issues in education which is rooted in the culture and society in developing countries. This book is consisted of three sections. Section 1 reviews a range of initiatives of international education. A particular focus is on scale-up strategy applied to gender-mainstreaming in education. Section 2 explores local challenge and issues in education. Case studies in different regions including Asia, Africa and Arabic regions are examined to identify differences in gender issues by regions. In Section 3, the existing challenges and issues are examined. One of the issues include government budget for education about which I contributed to write a chapter. In this chapter, I demonstrated how government budget is a key to promote education for girls and women who generally have disadvantages compared to boys and girls.