Due to weak gender policies, lack of credible evaluation and measurement, implementation and monitoring, vaguely imported programs and the willingness to act, African governments are letting women and girls down.

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In the recent years, the African governments have received form major organisation working on strengthening education systems including the Global Partnership for Education, UNESCO, some substantial amount of dollars fund but are not doing enough to close the wider gender gap in creating, improving equity, reducing poverty and enabling stable environment for women and girls. Rwanda and Senegal are often cited as good example of how to improve women female representation in parliaments but they are isolated cases.

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