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Category Archives: Aid
BRIEFLY: “We can no longer step lightly around this shame”
Desmond Tutu and Dennis Van Roekel (president of the U.S. National Education Association) added their voices this week to the calls for a concerted global push to meet the Education for All goals by 2015, in an opinion article in … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Donors, Finance, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children
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L’aide au développement en 2009 : un verre à moitié vide ou à moitié plein ?
De nouvelles données sur l’aide au développement ont été publiées par l’OCDE mercredi, donnant pour la première fois une idée de l’impact de la crise financière sur l’aide au développement. Alors comment les choses se présentent-elles? Premièrement, de quasi bonnes … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Developing countries, Donors, Finance, Group of 8
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Aid in 2009 : a glass half full or half empty?
By Elise Legault, research officer, Education for All Global Monitoring Report New aid figures were released on Wednesday by the OECD, shedding for the first time some light on the impact of the financial crisis on development assistance. So how … Continue reading
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When education saves lives (2): reducing maternal mortality
By Kevin Watkins, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report There are few starker indicators of global inequality than maternal mortality. Risks of death from causes associated with pregnancy in childbirth are heavily concentrated in developing countries – … Continue reading
BRIEFLY: Let’s find new ways of funding inclusive education
“More innovative forms of financing – at both the domestic and the international level – must be found if Education for All is to become a reality,” argues Nicholas Burnett, former Director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Donors, Finance, Health, Innovative financing
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BRIEFLY: Canada and the G8 – an education opportunity
Two striking pieces in Canadian newspapers use the launch in Ottawa on Thursday March 25, of the 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report as a springboard to consider how the Group of 8 summit in Canada in June could … Continue reading
72 million reasons to join 1GOAL’s campaign for education
By Adrian Lovett, chair of the 1GOAL campaign committee Congratulations Kevin Watkins and UNESCO. This site will change the world. A decade or so ago when we were building the Jubilee 2000 campaign to drop the debts of the poorest … Continue reading
THE FUNDING GAP, 1: The G-8 needs to stick to its promises
Last year, leaders of the G-8 group of rich countries made a bold promise to the world’s children: No country seriously committed to Education for All, they said, would be thwarted in its achievement because of lack of resources. Impressed? … Continue reading
THE FUNDING GAP, 2: How donors can meet their pledges
In 2000, rich countries promised that no country seriously committed to achieving Education for All by 2015 would be thwarted because of lack of resources. The promise has been repeated at every summit for the past decade, but projections in … Continue reading
THE FUNDING GAP, 3: Innovative financing
Projections in this year’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report show that on current trends, 56 million children will still be out of school in 2015. Donors need to stop talking and start delivering on their education aid promises – … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Donors, Innovative financing, Millennium Development Goals
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