- Coordination and capitalisation of initiatives aimed at promoting the education of girls and women
by the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) including raising awareness among
parents, setting up UNGEI committees at provincial and communal level in order to identify girls
who do not attend school or who have dropped out and enrol them in school;
152. Results of school retention and school success remain mixed. The repetition rate was 22.2%
for girls and 23% for boys in 2014. In the same year, the drop-out rate for girls was 6% and 7.8%
for boys.
153. The table below shows the evolution of the gross enrolment rates of girls and boys between
2011 and 2015 in public and general secondary education.38
Tableau IV : Evolution of girls’ education between the school years 2010-11 and 2014-15
2010-11
2011-12
2012-13
20013-14
2014-15
Girls
21,7
26,3
29
33,4
41,7
Boys
32
38 ,1
38
41,2
44,2
Différence
TBS
10,3
11,8
9
7.8
2.5
154. Progress has been made in reducing enrollment gaps between girls and boys, from 7.8 in 2014
to 2.5 in 2015.
155.The parity index remains low in the general and pedagogical secondary education: 0.78 and
in technical and vocational education: 0.52. In the PSDEF 2012, the need for efforts to be made
at this level in terms of gender parity is affirmed.
Challenges:
- Weight of the cost of uniforms, school supplies, transport, various contributions, ..., becoming
an overload for some parents;
- Persistence of sexual and gender-based violence;
- Insufficient resources.
A. Leisure, recreation and cultural activities
156. Burundi integrates leisure, recreation and sport activities for young people and children into its
educational system, which is implemented by the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture. In this
regard, two legal documents have been adopted. These are law n ° 1/26 of November 30, 2009
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Indicators on education in Burundi 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13, 2013-2014, 20114-2015
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