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The Forum for African Women Educationalist South Africa (FAWESA) is a South African Chapter of the Forum for African Women Educationalist (FAWE), a partnership of African women cabinet ministers, vice-chancellors of universities, and other senior women policy makers, who assume leadership for education planning and implementation in their countries. FAWE was created in 1992 with the overall goal of working towards closing the gender gap in education.

FAWESA was formally launched in March 1997 with the primary objective of bringing together female educationalists, policy-makers, researchers, and practitioners to provide gender equity in education and training through addressing policy-making and implimentation in education at all levels.

FAWESA's specific objectives are:

• To stimulate governments, donors, and NGOs to increase their investment in education, especially in a manner that can accelerate the eduction of girls and women.

• To promote women's leadership and public policy-making skills within education through targeted capacity-building programmes.

• To gather existing data to design high-impact programmes, taking into account the special needs of female students and teachers.

• To reinvigorate politically the "Education for All" (EFA) goals by emphasizing that fully two-thirds of  eligible school children who miss out on education in Africa are females.

• To build public awareness through media of the social and economic advantages of sending girls to school.

• To help NGOs expand their support for female education.

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