B.Data aggregated by region

Data (percentage)		Gross enrolment ratio, Primary Female		Gross enrolment ratio, Primary Male		Gross enrolment ratio, Primary Total		Gender parity index for gross enrolment ratio, Primary
Year	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006
Region
Arab States	91	91	92	100	101	102	96	96	97	0.90	0.90	0.90
Central and Eastern Europe	(*)93	96	96	(*)96	98	98	(*)95	97	97	(*)0.97	0.98	0.98
North America and Western Europe	100	101	101	102	102	101	101	101	101	0.98	0.99	1.00
Sub-Saharan Africa	84	87	(*)89	97	100	(*)95	90	94	(*)95	0.87	0.88	(*)0.89

Source:Available from http://stats.uis.unesco.org, UNESCO Institute of Statistics, Education (accessed on 29/07/2008).

Note : Two dots (..) indicate that data is not available. One asterisk (*) indicates that the figures are estimates from the UNESCO Institute of Statistics.

Table 2 Secondary education

A.Country data

Data (percentage)		Gross enrolment ratio, Secondary All programmes Female		Gross enrolment ratio, Secondary All programmes Male		Gross enrolment r atio, Secondary All programmes T otal		Gender parity index for gross enrolment ratio, Secondary All programmes
Year	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006
Country
Bahrain	103	104	104	98	99	100	101	101	102	1.05	1.05	1.04
Belgium	107	107	108	110	111	111	109	109	110	0.97	0.97	0.97
Cameroon	23	24	21	30	30	26	27	27	24	0.79	0.79	0.79
Canada	116	..	..	119	..	..	117	..	..	0.97	..	..
Ecuador	61	65	68	61	64	67	61	65	68	1.00	1.01	1.02
El Salvador	66	66	66	65	64	63	65	65	65	1.02	1.02	1.04
Kyrgyzstan	89	87	87	88	86	86	88	86	86	1.01	1.01	1.01
Madagascar	..	(*)20	23	..	(*)21	24	..	(*)21	24	..	(*)0.96	0.95
Mongolia	94	96	95	83	85	84	89	91	89	1.13	1.13	1.12
Myanmar	44	46	49	46	47	49	45	47	49	0.94	0.99	1.00
Portugal	100	102	102	91	93	94	95	97	97	1.10	1.09	1.09
Uruguay	115	109	109	99	94	94	107	101	101	1.15	1.15	1.16

B.Data aggregated by region

Data (percentage)		Gross enrolment ratio, Secondary All programmes Female		Gross enrolment ratio, Secondary All programmes Male		Gross enrolment ratio, Secondary All programmes Total		Gender parity index for gross enrolment ratio, Secondary All programmes
Year	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006
Region
Arab States	65	65	(*)65	71	72	(*)70	68	68	(*)68	0.91	0.91	(*)0.92
Central and Eastern Europe	87	85	86	91	89	89	89	87	88	0.96	0.96	0.96
North America and Western Europe	101	102	101	100	101	101	101	101	101	1.01	1.01	1.00
Sub-Saharan Africa	(*)26	(*)27	(*)28	(*)33	(*)34	(*)35	29	30	32	0.79	0.79	0.80

Source:Available from http://stats.uis.unesco.org, UNESCO Institute of Statistics, Education (accessed on 29/07/2008).

Note:Two dots (..) indicate that data is not available.One asterisk (*) indicates that the figures are estimates from the UNESCO Institute of Statistics.

Table 3 Tertiary education (ISCED 5 and 6)

A.Country data

Data (percentage)		Gross enrolment ratio, ISCED 5 and 6 Female		Gross enrolment ratio, ISCED 5 and 6 Male		Gross enrolment ratio, ISCED 5 and 6 Total		Gender parity index for gross enrolment ratio, Tertiary
Year	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006
Country
Bahrain	(*)44	48	47	(*)23	20	19	(*)33	33	32	(*)1.95	2.41	2.46
Belgium	68	69	70	57	56	56	62	62	63	1.20	1.23	1.25
Cameroon	(*)4	(**)5	6	(*)6	(**)7	8	(**)5	(**)6	7	(*)0.64	(**)0.66	0.72
Canada	72	..	..	53	..	..	62	..	..	1.36	..	..
Ecuador	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
El Salvador	21	22	23	18	18	19	19	20	21	1.20	1.22	1.21
Kyrgyzstan	43	46	48	36	37	38	40	41	43	1.19	1.25	1.27
Madagascar	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	0.90	0.89	0.87
Mongolia	49	54	58	30	33	37	39	43	47	1.64	1.62	1.57
Myanmar	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Portugal	64	62	61	48	48	48	56	55	55	1.32	1.30	1.28
Uruguay	(*)56	58	58	(*)28	33	35	(*)42	45	46	(*)2.02	1.74	1.68

B.Data aggregated by region

Data (percentage)		Gross enrolment ratio, ISCED 5 and 6 Female		Gross enrolment ratio, ISCED 5 and 6 Male		Gross enrolment ratio, ISCED 5 and 6 Total		Gender parity index for gross enrolment ratio, Tertiary
Year	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006
Region
Arab States	(*)20	(*)22	(*)22	(*)22	(*)22	(*)22	21	22	(*)22	(*)0.95	(*)1.00	(*)1.00
Central and Eastern Europe	61	64	66	49	51	53	54	57	60	1.25	1.25	1.25
North America and Western Europe	79	80	80	60	60	60	69	70	70	1.31	1.32	1.33
Sub-Saharan Africa	4	(*)4	(*)4	6	(*)6	(*)6	5	(*)5	(*)5	0.61	(*)0.67	(*)0.67

Source:Available from http://stats.uis.unesco.org, UNESCO Institute of Statistics, Education (accessed on 29/07/2008).

Note:ISCED = International Standard Classification of Education.Two dots (..) indicate that data is not available.One asterisk (*) indicates that the figures are estimates from the UNESCO Institute of Statistics.Two asterisks (**) indicate that the figures are national estimates.

Table 4 Percentage of female students: pre-primary, primary, secondary and tertiary

A.Country data

Data (percentage)		Percentage of female students, Total secondary, All programmes		Percentage of female students, Pre-primary		Percentage of female students, Primary		Percentage of female students, Total tertiary
Year	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006
Country
Bahrain	50	50	50	48	48	48	49	49	49	(*)63	68	68
Belgium	48	48	48	49	49	49	49	49	49	54	54	55
Cameroon	44	44	44	50	50	50	46	45	45	39	40	42
Canada	48	..	..	49	..	..	49	..	..	56	..	..
Ecuador	49	49	50	49	50	49	49	49	49	..	..	..
El Salvador	50	50	50	50	50	50	48	48	48	54	55	55
Kyrgyzstan	50	49	50	49	49	49	49	49	49	54	55	56
Madagascar	..	(*)49	49	..	51	51	49	49	49	47	47	47
Mongolia	53	52	52	51	52	52	49	49	50	62	61	61
Myanmar	48	49	49	..	..	50	50	50	50	..	..	..
Portugal	51	51	51	49	49	49	48	48	48	56	56	55
Uruguay	53	53	53	49	49	49	48	48	48	(*)66	63	62

B.Data aggregated by region

Data (percentage)		Percentage of female students, Total secondary, All programmes		Percentage of female students, Pre-primary		Percentage of female students, Primary		Percentage of female students, Total tertiary
Year	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006	2004	2005	2006
Region
Arab States	47	47	(*)47	46	46	(*)46	(*)47	(**)47	47	(*)48	(*)49	(*)49
Central and Eastern Europe	48	48	48	47	48	48	(*)48	48	48	55	55	55
North America and Western Europe	49	49	49	48	48	49	48	49	49	56	56	56
Sub-Saharan Africa	(*)44	(*)44	(*)44	(*)49	(*)49	(*)49	46	46	(*)47	38	(*)40	(*)40

Source:Available from http://stats.uis.unesco.org, UNESCO Institute of Statistics, Education (accessed on 29/07/2008).

Note:Two dots (..) indicate that data is not available.One asterisk (*) indicates that the figures are estimates from the UNESCO Institute of Statistics.Two asterisks (**) indicate that the figures are national estimates.

B.Country-specific reports: UNESCO initiatives and projects

Belgium

12.In 2007, three national fellowships were awarded to young women scientists pursuing doctoral research in Belgium under the UNESCO-L’OREAL Programme for Women in Science. In 2006, Christine Van Broeckhoven of Belgium was awarded, as laureate for Europe, the international UNESCO-L’OREAL award for women in science.

Cameroon

13.UNESCO has continued to expand its community multimedia centre programme throughout Cameroon. While the centres are not women specific, they give priority to women both in the personnel chosen to run the centres (at all decision-making levels) and in terms of programme content, which is oriented towards issues relevant to women’s empowerment and gender equality. Radio programmes cover a wide range of issues, from education for girls to literacy, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention.

14.In 2007, UNESCO and the Sony Ericsson Women’s Tennis Association Tour formed the Global Partnership for Gender Equality and announced their intention to fund women’s leadership programmes in Cameroon, China, the Dominican Republic, India, Jordan and Liberia. In Cameroon, the partnership will work with a local non-governmental organization to form a group of influential women politicians, business leaders and athletes to promote gender equality and women’s leadership. Through the organization of various sporting events, workshops and fund-raising activities, this group of women leaders will aim to raise awareness around and promote gender equality.

15.In December 2007, the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and the Family published a “Manual for gender mainstreaming in the policy, programmes, and development projects in Cameroon”, with technical and financial support from UNESCO.

16.UNESCO is part of the Gender Equality Working Group in Cameroon, along with the European Union, the Canadian International Development Agency, the German Agency for Technical Cooperation, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Subregional Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Central Africa. As part of this group, UNESCO provided technical and financial support to an awareness-raising workshop on tools for a gendered approach to poverty reduction strategy papers, which was held in Yaoundé in March 2007.

17.In March 2006, in the context of celebrations for International Women’s Day, the UNESCO Division for Gender Equality organized an exhibition entitled “Femmes bâtisseuses d’Afrique”. The exhibition presented photographs, paintings and mosaics that paid tribute to women construction workers in conjunction with other collaborators in the fields of conservation, restoration and land settlement. It featured the work of three women artists from Cameroon, among others.

Canada

18.On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2007, UNESCO held an international round table on “Women Peacemakers”. The round table aimed to highlight women’s contributions to peacemaking around the world, and featured five exceptional women from different regions who are renowned for their achievements within the field of peacebuilding, conflict resolution and reconstruction. Among them was Senator Mobina Jaffer of British Columbia, Canada, who was appointed in 2002 by the Government of Canada as Special Envoy to the Peace Process in the Sudan. At the end of the round table, Senator Jaffer joined her fellow panellists in signing the “Women Peacemakers Statement” which can be accessed online at the UNESCO website (http://www.unesco.org).

19.Since 2003, 14 different national fellowships have been awarded to Canadian women scientists under the UNESCO-L’OREAL Programme for Women in Science.

Ecuador

20.In October 2007, university teachers and other professionals from Latin America and Spain came together to address peace, conflict resolution and gender issues in education at a congress on the theme “Co-education and culture of peace” in Loja, Ecuador. This annual forum is convened under the auspices of UNESCO by the Education and Gender Programme at the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences.

Kyrgyzstan

21.In November 2007, the Ministry of Education of Kyrgyzstan and UNESCO organized a three-day workshop in Bishkek to promote gender-sensitivity innon-formal education. The workshop was attended by 30 educational specialists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

22.UNESCO and its partners have helped to start community learning centres in five communities in Kyrgyzstan. The centres help women and men of the local community to improve their skills and knowledge in agriculture. The centres also conduct training in problem solving, decision-making and effective communication.

Mongolia

23.In 2008, a fellowship was awarded to a young Mongolian woman scientist under the UNESCO-L’OREAL Programme for Women in Science.

Myanmar

24.No data was available.

Portugal

25.There are 43 schools in Portugal participating in the UNESCO Associated Schools Projects Network, which was launched in 1953. In this context, the Escola E.B. 2.3 de Sever do Vouga in Portugal promotes gender equality through the annual organization of a day for women’s rights, where students present work on issues pertaining to women’s rights in home life, work and politics, often in the presence of guests of honour such as Catarina Furtado, Goodwill Ambassadress to the United Nations.

26.Since 2004, 13 national fellowships have been awarded to Portuguese women scientists under the UNESCO-L’OREAL Programme for Women in Science.

Slovenia

27.Since 2007, two national fellowships and one international fellowship were awarded to Slovenian women scientists under the UNESCO-L’OREAL Programme for Women in Science.

Uruguay

28.In May 2006, the UNESCO office in Montevideo, in association with the Ministry of Education and Culture, among others, held a conference on the theme “Science, water and gender” on the occasion of the Week of Science and Technology.

29.On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2004, the UNESCO office in Montevideo, in conjunction with the Department of Culture and the Commission on Gender Equality of the Municipality of Montevideo, held a photography contest on the theme “Cultural diversity and gender equality — equal opportunities and rights for women and men”. The opening of the exhibit was held during a ceremony on 8 March.

30.In 2004, the Education Sector of the UNESCO office in Montevideo collaborated with the gender and sexuality programme of the Iniciativa Latinoamericana to produce a gender-sensitive publication entitled Youth, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS in Uruguay : know to prevent.