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The achievement of gender equality and women’s empowerment is believed to be the key to achieving all eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The United Nations (UN) has committed resources and energy to promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, which is the third MDG (MDG 3). However, gender equality and women’s empowerment cannot be achieved without increasing women’s access to education, which is recognised as a human right and a foundation stone of human development and economic growth (UNDP, 2005).
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Ruhwanya, Z. (2013). Use of Mobile Phones and OER to Enchance Women’s Access to Higher Education in Tanzania. In: Sehoole, C., Knight, J. (eds) Internationalisation of African Higher Education. Global Perspectives on Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-311-9_7
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