Category Archives: Poverty

New photo competition on inclusion and education

Posted on 10 September 2019 by

The 2020 GEM Report due out in April 2020 will cover inclusion in education, addressing all those at risk of exclusion from education because of gender, sexual orientation, displacement, migration, ethnicity, language, remoteness, poverty, disability or other characteristics. Pictures speak … Continue reading →

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Making space for more and better aid to education

Posted on 9 June 2017 by

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 →

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Why hasn’t education got a seat at the table for urban policy discussions?

Posted on 17 October 2016 by

For too long, education has been missing from urban policy and planning discussions. As the New Urban Agenda is finalized, those going to the Habitat III Conference should take heed of the benefits that including education, training and lifelong learning … Continue reading →

Posted in Economic growth, Environment, Poverty, sdgs, Sustainable development, Uncategorized, Urbanization | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Learning how to farm – the impact of Farmer Field Schools

Posted on 28 September 2016 by

By Mwatima Juma, Tanzania Country Programme Officer – IFAD A group of 20 farmers gather around a facilitator who is demonstrating how to prepare nutritious fodder for dairy cows on Zanzibar island, off the coast of Tanzania. They are attending … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, Africa, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Rural areas, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Education needs to fundamentally change if we are to reach our global development goals

Posted on 6 September 2016 by

The new Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report by UNESCO, released this morning, shows the vast potential for education to propel progress towards all global goals outlined in the new Sustainable Development Agenda (SDGs). But, if education is to fulfill that … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, Adult education, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, child marriage, Citizenship, Climate change, Conflict, curriculum, data, Developed countries, Equity, Ethnicity, Gender, Governance, Human rights, ICT, immigration, integrated development, Language, Latin America, Learning, Legislation, Literacy, Marginalization, pedagogy, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, private schools, private sector, Production, Rural areas, Sexual violence, SRGBV, Sustainable development, Uncategorized, united nations | Tagged , | 6 Comments

Education: A powerful response to climate change

Posted on 2 December 2015 by

By Colin Bangay, the senior education adviser for the UK government’s Department for International Development in India; the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the UK government’s official policies. With a new World Bank report warning climate change could push more … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, Developing countries, Disaster preparedness, Environment, Poverty, Rural areas, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development | Tagged | 3 Comments

The tangled web of conflict, climate change and education

Posted on 30 November 2015 by

The recent attacks on Paris have put increased urgency on the conversations to happen at the 21st Conference of Parties or COP 21 taking place over the next couple of weeks. Because, increasingly so, arguments are being built around the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, Equity, Marginalization, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, sdgs | Tagged | 8 Comments

A Data Revolution for Education 2030

Posted on 2 November 2015 by

By Jordan Naidoo, Director of Education at UNESCO, and Sylvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). The fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) is a global dream about quality education for all children, youth and adults. But this ambitious … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Learning, Literacy, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, parity, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Quality of education, sdg, sdgs | 7 Comments

The Impossible, by Malala Yousafzai

Posted on 7 July 2015 by

The EFA GMR recently updated it’s costing analysis for the price of education targets from 2015-2030. The updated costing paper shows that there is an annual finance gap of $39 billion to provide pre-primary through to upper secondary education. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Child soldiers, Conflict, Developing countries, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Economic growth, Finance, Gender, Latin America, Learning, Legislation, Literacy, Marginalization, Nutrition, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Rural areas, sdgs, Secondary school, Teachers | Tagged , , | 5 Comments

World Refugee Day and the lost generation

Posted on 20 June 2015 by

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 →

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