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Raising awareness among different classes in
society.
Building capacity at different levels.
Progressively narrowing the gender gap, especially
at the basic education level.
Improving the level of awareness of the magnitude
of the problems involved in enhancing the
status of women in general, and in improving
the participation of girls and women in education
in particular.
Above everything else, putting women-in-education
to its proper policy pedestal, that of a high
priority area of national development.
Negative attitudes to the
emancipation of women
can also be feminine.
Ethiopian experience is, however, still facing a number
of challenges.
Co-ordination with NGOs would require a great
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deal of improvement. While the major NGOs are
making efforts to co-ordinate their activities,
and while a good number of them have built up
capacity for operating at the grass-roots level,
they seem to have a strong feeling that government
is not fully utilizing their potentials. This
feeling is strongest in the case of government
activities outside the formal education sector.
The research activities of the sectoral departments
seem to have yielded knowledge that
can be ploughed back to the process of curriculum
material development. Those responsible
for the research admitted, however, that
these research projects were not carried out in