Lifting barriers: Boys' disengagement from education. Volume 1: Scoping Study

Girls’ education has long been promoted to achieve inclusive and quality education for all, yet targeted efforts are also needed to promote boys’ education where they are falling behind.

This scoping study aims to explore how educational programmes can challenge gender norms, including harmful and restrictive masculinities, to improve boys’ engagement in school and support gender equality more broadly. Insights are drawn from six selected programmes across diverse countries.

Co-published by UNESCO, Equimundo and the University of East Anglia, this volume is part of a series of publications produced within the GPE-KIX Lifting barriers: Educating boys for gender equality project, alongside the Cambodia case study (volume 2) and the Malawi case study (volume 3).