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Category Archives: Millennium Development Goals
2014 – a year of reflection
2014 was a year spent reflecting on past achievements in education and their implications for international policy commitments in 2015 and beyond. Our blog remained a popular online hub and the year’s most frequently read posts reflect key topics of … Continue reading
Post 2015: Sustainable development goals and the right to education
November 20th marked 25 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which had a major influence on the 1990 World Declaration on Education for All (EFA). Among all human rights treaties, … Continue reading
Our finance data tip for post-2015: We need to know who is financing what, where, and when.
In August this year, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commissioned an Independent Expert Advisory Group (IEAG) to come up with key recommendations necessary to bringing about a data revolution in sustainable development. Among the 9 key principles now being proposed are … Continue reading
Post-2015 Education: Calling for your feedback on proposed indicators for a global agenda!
Join a global consultation on education indicators for a global agenda By Albert Motivans, UNESCO Institute for Statistics Today, we are launching a new online consultation to gather your views on the proposed post-2015 global education indicators. The proposed indicators … Continue reading
Learning Today for a Sustainable Future
Today marks the end of the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. It also marks the end of the UN Decade on Education for Sustainable Development. Although the focused activities framed around the ESD decade … Continue reading
Engaging with EFA: Where have all the lessons gone?
This is the eighth in a series looking back to Dakar in order to draw lessons for those working on new education targets post-2015. This blog is by Cream Wright, who engaged continuously with EFA and the MDGs as a representative … Continue reading
Financing the massive education catch-up needed in sub-Saharan Africa
This is the seventh in a series of blogs taking a retrospective view of the Education for All agenda and its subsequent implementation. This blog is by Birger Fredriksen, who was a member of the World Bank’s team attending the Dakar World … Continue reading
New GMR booklet: Sustainable development begins with education
As the General Assembly kicks off in New York, the GMR has produced a new widely-supported booklet showing that education is a catalyst for each of the proposed post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals. Education is positively intertwined with each of the proposed … Continue reading
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A personal perspective on the follow up after Dakar
This is the fourth in a series of blogs taking a retrospective view of the Education for All agenda and its subsequent implementation. This blog is by Clinton Robinson, who was an independent consultant working for UNESCO at the start of … Continue reading
Writing the Dakar Framework: “the hardest 20 paragraphs of my life”
This is the third in a series of blogs taking a retrospective view of the Education for All agenda and its subsequent implementation. In this blog, Maris O’Rourke looks at leadership issues at Dakar and the difficulties of putting pen to … Continue reading
