The Engendering Empowerment: Education and Equality (E4) Conference, organized by the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative in collaboration with the Beyond Access team, and coordinated by the Institute of Education, University of London, is scheduled to take place between 17–20 May 2010, in Dakar, Senegal. It speaks to the goal of strengthening and expanding partnerships for girls’ education around the most pressing obstacles many girls face in pursuit of education.

In the run-up to the face-to-face conference, an online e-conference will be held over a period of five weeks, between 12 April and 14 May. Participation in the Dakar conference is by invitation only, while the e-conference is open to all.
Both conferences will examine issues of violence, poverty and educational quality and their intersections with participation, climate change and health. Each week the e-conference will focus on one of the themes emerging from the situation analysis produced for the conference.

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