1. 2008 Priority Actions Five major priorities GAC Business Meeting Kathmandu, 13 June 2008

2. Monitoring & Evaluation

3. Monitoring and Evaluation M&E framework development process Finalization this summer Multi-country evaluation of good practices (also part of toolkit)

4. Gender and Education in Emergencies

5. Collaboration with IRC, INEE Gender Task Team/IASC Education Cluster Gender Working Group and UNICEF 16 – 18 September training workshop in Geneva: “Addressing Gender Inequalities in and through Education in Emergencies, Post-Crisis and Contexts of Fragility”

6. Gender and Education in Emergencies (2) Will feed into 19 September CRC Committee Day of General Discussion on Right to Education in Emergencies Participants: government, CSO or other agency reps who will apply learning to their work Application deadline: this week

7. Toolkit/ Resource pack

8. Resource pack contents (draft) New tools Guidelines on how to establish and maintain an effective country-level partnership Multi-country case studies/evaluation Strategies to influence country processes, e.g. SWAps, FTI (including inclusion tool) Gender training modules for Ministries of Education developing education sector plans Girls’ education mapping results

9. Resource pack contents (draft) Existing tools UNGEI Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, 2008 Equity and Inclusion tools, UNGEI, IATT, GTF, EFA Disabilities Flagship, 2008 Gender and education in emergencies, INEE Gender Mainstreaming Tools Marketplace: An Annotated Resource Guide, UNDP, 2006 Gender audit guidelines Gender budgeting guidelines

10. Virtual conference

11. Gender, development and education Building on outcome of visioning exercise and successes from eDiscussions and Kathmandu Technical meeting Fourth quarter activity Precursor to 2009 face-to-face conference (3 rd quarter?)

12. Integration in EFA process

13. FTI: Equity and Inclusion Tool next steps: –Agree on dissemination/field testing with FTI Secretariat –Piloting –Revision –Roll-out Working Group High Level Group

14. Comments/ questions?