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What next for the Global Partnership for Education after a transformative replenishment?
By David Archer The Global Partnership for Education replenishment event, co-hosted by President Macron and President Macky Sall on 2nd February in Senegal, was a landmark moment for education financing. Over $2 billion were pledged by donors for the GPE’s … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Donors, Finance, right to education, Uncategorized
Tagged donors, finance, funding, global partnership for education
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“Fulfilling one’s responsibilities”: Accountability and service to the people in Rwanda’s education system
This blog is written by Catherine A Honeyman, Senior Youth Workforce Specialist at World Learning and visiting Lecturer, Duke Center for International Development at Duke University. Catherine is also the author of a case study on accountability and education in Rwanda commissioned … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, country case study, rwanda, target 4.1, target 4.6
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Raising billions of dollars for education in Dakar
With the curtains of the third Financing Conference of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) in Dakar, Senegal now closed, it is important to remember the context in which it was organized. During the first half of this decade, aid … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Donors, Finance, Uncategorized
Tagged aid, finance, financing, global partnership for education
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What is at stake at the GPE Financing Conference?
The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 3rd replenishment conference (February 1-2) aims to confirm significant increases in commitments from partner countries and donors – old and new – in order to ensure that all children and youth are in school … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Aid, Finance, Uncategorized
Tagged aid, financing, funding, global partnership for education
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Results based financing in education: is it a challenge to aid effectiveness?
On the occasion of this week’s Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Financing Conference held in Dakar, Senegal, the GEM Report has released a new policy paperon results-based financing (RBF) in education, a financing modality being promoted strongly by some donors. … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Aid, Finance, Uncategorized
Tagged aid, aid effectiveness, financing, funding, global partnership for education
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Tajikistan: Accountability on paper versus in practice
This blog is written by Kate Lapham, Deputy Director of the Open Society Foundations’ Education Support Program, and the author of a case study on accountability and education in Tajikistan commissioned for the 2017/8 GEM Report. The blog is part of a series showing that accountability … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Literacy, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, accountability, country case study, target 4.6, Target 4.a
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Success in Dubai: Pushing ahead on SDG 4 data
By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and Jordan Naidoo, Director, Education 2030 Support and Coordination at UNESCO As we unpack our bags following last week’s meeting of the Technical Cooperation Group (TCG) in Dubai, it … Continue reading
Posted in data, monitoring, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, education, SDG4, sdg4 steering committee, SDGs, Target 4.3, target 4.7
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Corporations in education: Too big to hold accountable?
Large corporations are increasingly involved in the education sector, through investments in technology, private schools and higher education institutions. Pearson is the world’s largest education company, operating in over 70 countries. Its near global monopoly raises questions about who has … Continue reading
Drafting guiding principles on state obligations concerning private schools: Lessons and strategic considerations from a rights perspective
By Tom Lowenthal, OxHRH Managing Editor and DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford As the Oxford Human Rights Hub’s course, Learning Lessons from Litigators, helps us to understand, children will not be educated by lawsuits alone: Just as there are tactics … Continue reading
Posted in Human rights, private schools, privatisation, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged human rights, private schools, RTE campaign, SDGs, target 4.1
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The Tanzanian President has just banned schools from taking any money from pupils
Free education? What does that really mean? Tanzania made secondary education free in 2015. But, as we know from several editions of the GEM Report, plenty of countries provide ‘free education’ and yet the cost of going to school is … Continue reading
Posted in Finance, sdg, sdgs, Secondary school, Uncategorized
Tagged financing, secondary education, tanzania, target 4.1
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