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Category Archives: Developing countries
Education can’t wait till the war is over
By Pauline Rose, senior policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report team Recently I visited the huge refugee camps around Dadaab, Kenya, where more than 250,000 Somalis shelter from the war ravaging their country. In one camp, schoolboys said … Continue reading
The problem with cash-on-delivery aid
By Paolo de Renzio, Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford University Nancy Birdsall’s response on this blog to the issues raised about cash-on-delivery aid in the 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report reflect the amount of work that has gone … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Developing countries, Donors, Finance, Governance, Innovative financing
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Don’t break the aid promise to Africa’s children
A press release from the Global Monitoring Report team As political leaders across Africa prepare for the World Cup education summit scheduled for 11 July in Pretoria, UNESCO warns that shortfalls in aid threaten to derail efforts to get the … Continue reading
Giving education a sporting chance
By Kevin Watkins, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report You are probably wondering what a UN official is doing writing about the World Cup. So let me start with an assurance. I’m not about to offer post-match … Continue reading
Out of conflict and into school – in two minutes
In a snappy YouTube clip, Katy Webley, head of education at Save the Children, spells out the lessons that her organisation has learned from its Rewrite the Future campaign, including the message that “Education must become part of emergency responses, … Continue reading
George Weah: “There is nothing as important as education”
In a powerful comment article in The Guardian, George Weah backs 1Goal, the campaign to ensure that education for all is a lasting impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Weah, the first African soccer player to have been named … Continue reading
Cash on delivery: linking aid to results
By Nancy Birdsall, William D. Savedoff and Ayah Mahgoub, Center for Global Development, Washington Cash-on-delivery aid is a proposed new approach under which donors would commit to pay a specific amount for a specific measure of progress. Recent endorsements of … Continue reading
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Education and mothers’ health – a virtuous circle
By Anaïs Loizillon, research officer, Education for All Global Monitoring Report Children’s educational prospects are shaped long before they get anywhere near a school – in the womb, when brain development creates the physical foundations for future learning. In the … Continue reading
Funding fix is good news for Nigerian children
By Samer Al-Samarrai, senior policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report In the 2009 Global Monitoring Report we highlighted how a federal programme in Nigeria to provide additional funds for basic education was failing. The Universal Basic Education Commission … Continue reading
Giving education a bigger slice of the pie
By Samer Al-Samarrai, senior policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report In this year’s Global Monitoring Report we highlighted the impressive increases in spending on primary education that many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have made since 2000. About two … Continue reading
