Promoting gender equality and empowering girls and women is a priority task of the Royal Government of Cambodia in supporting line ministries and institutions to pay attention to promoting gender equality. In this regard, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has implemented the Gender Mainstreaming Strategic Plan in Education 2021-2025 that achieves gender equality in the education sector, in respond to the Roadmap for Sustainable Development Goals 2030 on Education in Cambodia “Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering Women and Girls”, Target 1 “Reduce the Gender Gap in Secondary Education”, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Royal Government’s Pentagonal Strategy-Phase I, the Neary Rattanak VI Strategic Plan, and the Education Strategic Plan 2024-2028. The Pentagonal Strategy-Phase I “Human Capital Development” of the Royal Government, Angle 1, focuses on strengthening the quality of education, sports, science, and technology to improve the socio-economic situation and enhance the role of women as the backbone of national economic and social development.
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has continued to implement policies, plans, and programs in the education sector to develop human capital, including strengthening and protecting women’s rights and promoting gender equality in the education sector. MoEYS has set out the following directions.
– Ensure gender equality, equitable and inclusive access and learning quality across all education services, both in informal and informal system.
– Ensure increased participation of female education staff in the provision of education services
– Ensure a positive educational environment and positive social behaviour to respond to gender
– Build schools closer to people’s homes to encourage female students from poorer families to attend, to reduce travel costs and ensure safety.
– Build a slope for students with disabilities.
– Building dormitories for students, pedagogical students, residency students, such as in schools, pedagogical schools, general and technical high schools, and universities.
– Implement the Child Friendly School Program and the School Counselor Program.
– Promote awareness of the importance of educating women who invest from mother to child, as well as paying attention to society’s attitude towards daughters.
– Provide scholarships for general priority students, outstanding students, female priority, poor priority, priority remote areas, and students with disabilities, especially female students.
– Develop textbooks, study materials, improve teaching and learning activities to be engaging, especially promoting women and girls without discrimination on the basis of gender.
– Provide sexual and reproductive health education, prevention of HIV, AIDS, and other communicable diseases.
