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Category Archives: Post-2015 development framework
The Global [Education] Monitoring Report has a new mandate for the next fifteen years
The mandate of our report, known since Dakar as the EFA Global Monitoring Report (EFA GMR), has been formally prolonged. This mandate and our new name, the Global Education Monitoring Report, has been cemented in the Incheon Declaration adopted at … Continue reading
Civil society priorities at the World Education Forum
By David Archer, Head of Programmes, ActionAid and Board member of Global Campaign for Education. This is the first in a series of blogs leading up to and reacting to the World Education Forum taking place in Incheon Korea 19-22 … Continue reading
Report cards for Education for All: 2000-2015
Which Education for All goal needs a rethink? Which calls for us to try harder? Read and share the Report cards for each of the global education goals set in Dakar taken from the GMR 2015: Education for all 2000-2015: Achievements … Continue reading
Posted in Adult education, Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Conflict, Democracy, Developing countries, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Finance, Gender, Latin America, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Report, Sustainable development
Tagged adult illiteracy, Africa, aid, basic education, developing countries, education, Education for All, equality, equity, finance, Gender, Millennium Development Goals, post-2015, pre-primary education, primary education, quality, secondary education, skills, teachers, UNESCO, United Nations
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Was education progress faster after Dakar?
The freshly released GMR, “Education for All 2000-2015: achievements and challenges” shows that only a third of countries reached all of the measurable Education for All goals. Only half reached the most watched goal of universal primary education. While the … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Basic education, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Gender, Learning, Marginalization, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Uncategorized
Tagged Africa, asia, dakar, development, education, Millennium Development Goals, post2015, pre-primary education, primary education, primary school, UNESCO
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Highlights from the launch events of the GMR 2015
On the occasion of the launch of the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2015: Education for All 2000-2015: Achievements and Challenges, many key dignitaries assembled on three different continents to discuss the Report’s findings and the implications for education in the … Continue reading
Posted in Adult education, Aid, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Economic growth, Equality, Equity, Health, Human rights, Learning, Literacy, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Report, Rural areas, sdgs, Secondary school, Skills, Sustainable development, Teachers, Youth
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The GMR – and how it has contributed to EFA
In 2000 at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal 164 countries pledged to achieve six education goals by 2015. Participants committed to vastly improve education opportunities for children, youth and adults. Governments and international partners pledged that no country … Continue reading
Posted in Adult education, Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Child soldiers, Developed countries, Developing countries, Disaster preparedness, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Finance, Gender, Governance, Literacy, Marginalization, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school
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We must not set our sights too low for financing the SDGs
The recent draft of the outcome document for the Addis Ababa Financing for Development Conference said that, by 2025, public spending must reach US$300 per person or 10% of national income to provide an essential basket of public services, ranging … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Finance, mdgs, Post-2015 development framework, sdgs
Tagged finance
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Measuring gender equality in education: A challenge for the Sustainable Development agenda
By Elaine Unterhalter, Professor of Education and International Development at the Institute of Education, University College London, and Joan Dejaeghere Associate Professor, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development, Interdisciplinary Center for Global Change, University of Minnesota. As we look to the post-2015 … Continue reading
The sustainable development goals won’t be achieved without education
Over the course of the next few days, UN Member States will be meeting in New York for the next intergovernmental negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda. They will be discussing global indicators for each of the sustainable development goals … Continue reading
The world will not reach new education targets by 2030 unless financial efforts are stepped up
New estimates by UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) reveal that an annual US$22 billion external funding gap must be bridged if low and lower middle income countries are to achieve quality, universal pre-primary, primary and lower secondary … Continue reading
