the regions with wider gender gaps in primary enrolment are not necessarily the ones with the strongest gender focus in aid to education country groupings are defined in the annex iia meanwhile only of the aid to primary education targeted gender equality in subsaharan africa where except for some countries in southern africa primary school enrolment had some of the highest levels of gender disparity see chapter there is therefore scope for dac members to increase the gender equality focus of their aid to primary education in subsaharan africa