Tag Archives: finance

World Refugee Day and the lost generation

Posted on 20 June 2015 by GEM Report

One in 122 people worldwide is either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum, says UNHCR’s annual Global Trends Report: World at War, released last Thursday. And given that 58% of all refugees are children, World Refugee Day is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Conflict, Human rights, Poverty, Refugees and displaced people | Tagged #Target 4.5, finance, humanitarian aid, refugees | 13 Comments

What would you put first? A new suit, or your nation’s education?

Posted on 17 June 2015 by Kate Redman

News has reported this morning that the new National Assembly in Nigeria is to receive $43 million in a clothing allowance, meaning that each of the legislators is receiving over $91,000. According to the latest costing estimates by the EFA … Continue reading →

Posted in Democracy, Equality, Finance, Governance, Legislation, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Quality of education, Teachers | Tagged finance, nigeria | 9 Comments

Hope for Nigeria

Posted on 29 May 2015 by Kate Redman

On 1 April the election took place in Nigeria for a new President. Today, Mr. Muhammadu Buhari is sworn in as President. This blog looks at the reasons for hope behind the priorities of the new government for education. Countering expectations, no … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Basic education, Child soldiers, Conflict, Democracy | Tagged conflict, corruption, finance, nigeria, SSA | 8 Comments

12 years “free” or “publicly funded” education? A good outcome.

Posted on 27 May 2015 by GEM Report

This blog explains how one word – “free” –was one of the reasons it took so long for the adopted declaration from Incheon to appear online. It celebrates the official commitment in the Incheon Declaration to 12 years of free, … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Finance, Human rights, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Quality of education, sdgs, Sustainable development | Tagged finance, target 4.1 | 1 Comment

Private schools: punishing the poorest, or providing much needed access to education?

Posted on 30 April 2015 by GEM Report

By Joanna Härmä, Research Officer for the EFA Global Monitoring Report and Aaron Benavot, Director of the EFA Global Monitoring Report. This blog first appeared on the education in crisis website. Private education, on the rise since the World Education Forum … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accountability, finance, private schools, target 4.1 | 6 Comments

Report cards for Education for All: 2000-2015

Posted on 15 April 2015 by GEM Report

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 | 3 Comments

We must not set our sights too low for financing the SDGs

Posted on 31 March 2015 by Asma Zubairi

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 | 2 Comments

The world will not reach new education targets by 2030 unless financial efforts are stepped up

Posted on 11 March 2015 by GEM Report

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 →

Posted in Basic education, Donors, Finance, Innovative financing, Learning, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Quality of education, Sustainable development, Teachers | Tagged finance | 3 Comments

Improving the measurement of household wealth to better understand global inequalities in education

Posted on 27 January 2015 by GEM Report

By Jeroen Smits, Associate Professor on Inequality and Development at the Economics Department of Radboud University in the Netherlands and Director of the Global Data Lab. Over the past few decades, household surveys have become an important source of information on … Continue reading →

Posted in Economic growth, Equality, Equity, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty | Tagged #Target 4.5, finance | 5 Comments

Aid to education has fallen by 10% since 2010

Posted on 11 June 2014 by Aaron Benavot

A new EFA Global Monitoring Report policy paper, Aid reductions threaten education goals shows that aid to education has been on a downward spiral since 2010, putting the achievement of existing and future global education goals at risk. With 250 … Continue reading →