Millennium Development Goals: Women and Girls — Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:52 pm on 9 March 2015.

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Photo of Baroness Northover Baroness Northover The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development 2:52, 9 March 2015

It is extremely important to get girls as well as boys into school. A lot of progress has been made and there is almost gender parity, except in areas where there is conflict and, particularly, rural areas. The noble Baroness rightly highlights the project in Nigeria. We are working with UNICEF to manage the girls’ education project, which aims to get 1 million girls in school, and the results monitoring process has been agreed with UNICEF and is being implemented.