Category Archives: Finance

Où va l’aide française à l’éducation? À la France, en grande partie

Par Elise Legault, chargée de recherche, Rapport mondial de suivi sur l’Éducation pour tous L’aide internationale devrait être destinée aux pays étrangers. Pourtant il existe plusieurs zones grises quant à ce qui peut être considéré comme de l’aide, et quels … Continue reading

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Where is French aid to education going? To France, mostly

By Elise Legault, research officer, Education for All Global Monitoring Report Foreign aid is supposed to go to foreign countries. But there are many grey areas in terms of what can be counted as aid, and who can be classified … Continue reading

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BRIEFLY: Gordon Brown calls for new global education fund

Former British prime minister Gordon Brown, a co-convenor of the High Level Panel on Education, released a report this week calling for the establishment of an independent global fund for education, to raise the $16 billion needed each year to … Continue reading

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Haiti update: Where’s the public education system?

By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report The second anniversary of Haiti’s devastating earthquake has drawn attention this week to the needs of the country’s young people, and efforts to give them a future. But … Continue reading

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Beyond Busan 3: What management, for which results?

By Manos Antoninis, senior policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report The inclusion of “managing for results” as one of the pillars of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness signalled strongly the need to turn a page in development … Continue reading

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Beyond Busan 2: Should imputed student costs and scholarships be counted as aid?

By Elise Legault, research officer, Education for All Global Monitoring Report team Aid analyses by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report tend to put greater emphasis on basic education than on the whole sector. One reason is that the … Continue reading

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G20 leaders need to speak out for education and skills

By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report With the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals and the Education for All goals just four years away, some questions about the future of global development efforts are … Continue reading

Posted in Aid, Developing countries, Donors, Economic growth, Employment, Finance, Governance, Group of 20, Innovative financing, Millennium Development Goals, Skills, Training, Youth | 5 Comments

More money needed to get all children into school by 2015

A major event in Copenhagen next week could make a crucial difference for the 67 million children around the world who are still not enrolled at school. Representatives of developing country governments, bilateral and multilateral agencies, civil society organizations and … Continue reading

Posted in Africa, Aid, Asia, Basic education, Developing countries, Donors, Finance, Innovative financing, Out-of-school children | 13 Comments

How to reduce poverty’s impact on education

Français | Español On October 17, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, it’s worth remembering that progress in fighting poverty is inextricably linked with progress in achieving education for all. Although poverty continues to decline in many countries, … Continue reading

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Chileans march for equality in education

Students and parents marching in Santiago, Chile. (Photo: Elibertaria/Flickr. Creative Commons Licence: Attribution/Noncommercial/No Derivatives) Français | Español For months, Chile has seen almost daily protests by students frustrated at a system that fails to provide the poor with an equal … Continue reading

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