Category Archives: Marginalization

A week of global action for girls’ and women’s education

Posted on 1 May 2011 by EFA Editor

Français | Español The Global Monitoring Report team is joining forces with UNESCO’s network of field offices to mark this year’s Education for All Global Action Week (May 2-8), which focuses on girls’ and women’s education. In 2000, governments pledged … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Conflict, Developing countries, Gender, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Sexual violence | 4 Comments

Hard lessons in the world’s largest refugee complex

Posted on 29 March 2011 by EFA Editor

Français | Español Somali refugees’ struggle for education in the Dadaab camps in northeastern Kenya, which we focused on in a post earlier this month, comes under the spotlight in an article from IRIN that builds on the findings of … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Basic education, Conflict, Developing countries, Donors, Human rights, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Refugees and displaced people | 2 Comments

Education bounces back in Cambodia and Ethiopia

Posted on 22 March 2011 by EFA Editor

Français | Español By Jakob Engel, a research consultant for the Overseas Development Institute Cambodia and Ethiopia offer valuable lessons on improving access to education after conflict, the theme of the 2011 EFA Global Monitoring Report, The hidden crisis: Armed … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Conflict, Developing countries, Ethnicity, Gender, Human rights, Language, Marginalization, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Teachers | 2 Comments

For refugees in Kenya, ‘education is the only thing we can take home’

Posted on 15 March 2011 by Pauline Rose

Français | Español By Pauline Rose, senior policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report In many ways, Kenya is an example of an African success story in education. According to the 2011 EFA Global Monitoring Report, growth in the … Continue reading →

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Pakistan declares ‘education emergency’

Posted on 10 March 2011 by EFA Editor

Français | Español Kicking off a campaign aimed at making March “the month that Pakistan talks about only two things: education and cricket”, a government commission has painted a damning picture of the country’s education system, whose poor progress towards global … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Conflict, Developing countries, Finance, Governance, Legislation, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Primary school | 16 Comments

THE HIDDEN CRISIS: ARMED CONFLICT AND EDUCATION

Posted on 1 March 2011 by EFA Editor

Français | Español | العربية The 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education, is launched today at 10 a.m. in New York by Irina Bokova, director-general of UNESCO, with simultaneous launches in a dozen other locations, … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Basic education, Conflict, Developing countries, Donors, Human rights, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Refugees and displaced people, Sexual violence | 4 Comments

Education failures fan the flames in the Arab world

Posted on 23 February 2011 by EFA Editor

Français | Español | العربية By Kevin Watkins, director, Education for All Global Monitoring Report No one could have predicted that, in the space of a few months, the death by self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian struggling to … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Democracy, Developing countries, Governance, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Secondary school | 20 Comments

L’éducation en Afrique 50 ans après les indépendances

Posted on 15 October 2010 by Nicole Bella

In our second post for francophone readers, Nicole Bella, policy analyst on the Education for All Global Monitoring Report team, looks at the progress of education in Africa since 17 countries gained their independence in 1960, and the challenges that … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Finance, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals | 8 Comments

On the margins in the wealthy West

Posted on 5 October 2010 by Karen Moore

By Karen Moore, policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report Français | Español The word marginalization often brings to mind those in the world’s poorest countries. But on a trip to Canada last week I was reminded of one of … Continue reading →

Posted in Developed countries, Ethnicity, Governance, Innovative financing, Marginalization, Teachers | 3 Comments

Youngest minds need the best care

Posted on 27 September 2010 by Anaïs Loizillon

By Anaïs Loizillon, researcher, Education for All Global Monitoring Report When world leaders met in New York last week to reaffirm their commitment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, the United Nations launched its new Global Strategy for … Continue reading →

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