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Donors and countries are not pulling their weight in funding education
Today, two events are being held during the UN General Assembly delivering a high-level political call for urgent action on education financing. As the forthcoming GEM Report due out 24 October shows, many countries and donors are not pulling their … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Aid, Donors, Finance, Innovative financing, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized, united nations
Tagged aid, donors, edcucation, finance, financing, funding, global fund, SDG, SDG4
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Making space for more and better aid to education
By Keith M Lewin The latest policy paper from the GEM Report provides a stark reminder that trends in aid to education mean there is still a long journey to travel to deliver access to quality education for all. Aid … Continue reading
The share of aid allocated to education has fallen for the sixth year in a row
A new GEM Report policy paper, Aid to education is stagnating and not going to countries most in need, shows that the amount of aid allocated to education has been falling for six years in a row. Donors are turning … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Finance, Uncategorized
Tagged aid, donors, finance, financing, humanitarian aid
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When will they ever learn?
By Ben Hewitt, Director of Campaigns and Communications at Theirworld Denying a child an education does not happen by accident. It is the end result of policy and funding choices made by individuals in positions of power. It is up … Continue reading
When is state funding of private schools a violation of human rights?
By Sylvain Aubry, Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights The announcement at the beginning of the year by the Ministry of Education of Liberia of its intention to outsource the management of all its pre-primary and primary schools … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Finance, Human rights, private schools, private sector, Quality of education, Uncategorized
Tagged finance, private schools, target 4.1
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Some donors are shifting aid to secondary education
The recent policy paper by the GEM Report containing the data on 2014 aid spending shows that, for several years, aid to education has been stuck not only at a level far below what is needed but even below levels … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Donors, Post-2015 development framework, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged finance, target 4.1
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Humanitarian aid: education’s double disadvantage
The GEM Report’s recent paper on trends of aid to education shows how education remains an under-prioritised and underfunded sector of humanitarian aid. Humanitarian aid makes up only a small share of the external financing that countries receive for education. … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Conflict, Finance, fragile states, Primary school, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized, united nations, violence
Tagged #Target 4.5, conflict, finance, humanitarian aid, Target 4.a
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