Call for Submission of Articles on Girls’ and Women’s Education

As part of its ongoing dedication to fostering analysis and selling gender equality in training, the African Union International Centre for the Education of Girls and Women in Africa (AU/CIEFFA) proclaims a name for submission of educational articles. This initiative is designed to encourage high-quality, evidence-based analysis contributions that focus on the intersections of gender and training in Africa.

The chosen articles will contribute to coverage improvement, strengthen advocacy efforts, and present decision-makers throughout African Union Member States with dependable insights to assist the development of women’ and ladies’s training.

Purpose of the Call

The goal of this name is to:

• Encourage unique, context-relevant educational analysis that explores key challenges and alternatives in advancing women’ and ladies’s training in Africa.
• Contribute to the physique of information that informs the design, implementation, and analysis of gender-responsive training insurance policies.
• Provide a platform for African researchers and practitioners to spotlight region-specific improvements, options, and challenges.
• Support AU/CIEFFA’s broader mission to attain the training targets outlined in Agenda 2063 and the Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA 16–25).

Areas of Focus

Submissions are welcomed on a variety of themes, together with however not restricted to:

• Gender equality and inclusive training
• Access to high quality training for women and younger ladies
• Barriers to training: social, financial, cultural, and institutional
• Education in emergency and battle settings
• Gender-sensitive instructor coaching and curriculum improvement
• Retention and transition of women throughout all training ranges
• Impact of digital applied sciences and improvements in selling women’ training
• Feminist pedagogy and African indigenous information techniques
• Monitoring and analysis of gender-focused teaching programs

Who Can Submit

This name is open to:

• Researchers and educational students working in African or world establishments
• Education coverage consultants and gender specialists
• Civil society and NGO practitioners engaged in training and ladies’s empowerment
• Graduate college students and early-career professionals with related analysis

Submissions from ladies researchers, youth, and contributors from underrepresented areas are particularly inspired.

Submission Guidelines

• Articles have to be unique, unpublished, and grounded in empirical analysis or sturdy theoretical evaluation.
• Submissions must be written in English and comply with commonplace educational formatting and quotation tips.
• Co-authored and interdisciplinary papers are welcome.
• All articles should embrace a title, summary, key phrases, writer(s) bio(s), and references.

Detailed formatting directions and submission templates could be requested by e-mail.

How to Submit

Interested people ought to e-mail their article proposals or full submissions to:
Email: au-cieffa@africa-union.org

Please embrace “Article Submission – Girls and Women’s Education” within the topic line.

Deadline for submission: 8 august 2025

About AU/CIEFFA

The African Union International Centre for the Education of Girls and Women in Africa (AU/CIEFFA) is a specialised establishment of the African Union primarily based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It works to advertise gender equality by means of training by conducting analysis, providing technical assist to Member States, and coordinating coverage dialogues centered on empowering women and ladies by means of studying. AU/CIEFFA helps inclusive, rights-based, and gender-responsive training insurance policies throughout the continent.

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