The Cameroon Education For All Network took part in the training session organized at the end of September 2025 by Education Out Loud on the issue of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI).
The Cameroon Education For All Network (CEFAN) participated in the training session organized by Education Out Loud (EOL) in Tanzania at the very end of September 2025, focusing on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) in educational programs. This transformative training was designed for change agents, particularly education leaders, practitioners, and grant beneficiaries under the EOL initiative. Its aim was to equip them with the knowledge, tools, and strategies necessary to advance gender equality and social inclusion in their programs.
Inclusive education
Building on EOL’s policy guidance on GESI, the training emphasized intersectionality, inclusive education, and transformative change. Participants explored how gender, disability, poverty, ethnicity, displacement, and other social identities interact to create barriers, as well as what can be done to dismantle them.
Transformative approach
More specifically, the transformative approach to gender and male engagement enabled participants to critically examine power dynamics, harmful norms, and strategies to involve men as allies in care work, violence prevention, and the inclusive education of children.
Action planning
On the action planning and coaching front, each participant developed an individual or institutional GESI action plan, supported by personalized coaching and peer-to-peer learning to foster its implementation. It is worth noting that the interactive and experiential learning during the training was centered on real case studies, storytelling, role-playing, forum theatre, and scenario-based exercises tailored to the education sector.