it serves as an overarching framework for further more issuespecific guidance in various areas and contains a number of important provisions related to women s participation in public life and the necessary institutional tools and preconditions while mena countries have not yet adopted this recommendation its provisions may serve as useful guidance for focused action to close the remaining gaps in the region box ensuring that boys and girls have equal access to goodquality education equal rights and opportunities to successfully complete schooling and in making educational choices