OVERVIEW: The policy adopts a wide perspective of equality that includes girls and boys, women and men, rather than a focus on just girls and women.

Within the constitutional and legal framework provisions, the gender policy advocates for more equal participation between women and men, girls and boys; and acknowledges that gender equality does not mean that women and girls are the same as men and boys, and vice versa, but that gender should not be used to determine access to education and educational outcomes.