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needs of specific groups of girls and women in
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4. Promoting the education of girls and women is
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other development sectors help to reinforce the
work done in the education sector, since they all
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5. Promoting the education of women and girls
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affair. The challenge here is to design appropri-
ate strategies es for harnessing the potentials of
every stakeholder.
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as ‘experts in their own rights’, the better.
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8. In the African context, poverty is a stark real-
ity, and all efforts to promote the education
of women and girls must take poverty in its
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9. Communication is a major problem. It inhibits
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learning on ongoing activities, the area of
communication and networking deserves very
special attention.
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