Project Monitoring and Reporting Support for the Gender at the Centre Initiative (GCI)

The Gender at the Centre Initiative (GCI) aims to improve gender equality in education through mobilizing technical resources to support Ministries of Education and other national actors in gender-responsive education sector planning (GRESP) and management, including analysis, plan and policy development, implementation, budgeting and monitoring. The GCI is a multi-stakeholder partnership which includes United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI), Global Partnership for Education (GPE), UNESCO-International Institute for Educational Planning (UNESCO-IIEP), UNESCO, Plan International, the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), the African Network Campaign for Education for All (ANCEFA), and the African Union - International Centre for the Education of Girls and Women in Africa (AU/CIEFFA).  

The GCI has mandated Universalia to design and support the implementation of a robust Performance Management Framework to track progress for both accountability and learning, in the initiative's 8 pilot countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. As part of this, Universalia will support UNGEI’s management of the GCI in its first year by leading in-country baseline exercises, and its first Annual Work Plan and Annual Report.