Tag Archives: financing

COVID-19 poised to set aid to education back by six years

Posted on 10 July 2020 by GEM Report

English / Español A new GEM Report policy paper released today shows that total aid to education reached its highest ever levels in 2018, the latest available year. However, it estimates that global aid is likely to decline by up … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Uncategorized | Tagged aid, aid effectiveness, aid to education, coronavirus, covid19, Finance, financing, humanitarian aid | 3 Comments

What are the financial implications of the coronavirus for education?

Posted on 24 March 2020 by GEM Report

How long is a piece of string? You might be asking, looking at the question this blog is asking. And to some extent, you’d be right. In these early days of the outbreak, it is as yet unknown how long … Continue reading →

Posted in Economic growth, Finance, Out-of-school children, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, Finance, financing, out of school | 2 Comments

Private sector participation in education: where it occurs, and why

Posted on 24 February 2020 by GEM Report

By Antoni Verger, Adrián Zancajo, Clara Fontdevila The privatization of basic education is a global phenomenon, growing in all corners of the world. As a pre-cursor to a larger discussion on this issue to be featured in the 2021 GEM … Continue reading →

Posted in Finance, private schools, private sector, privatisation, Uncategorized | Tagged 2021 GEM Report, Finance, financing, private schools, private sector, privatisation | Leave a comment

New Financing for Sustainable Development Report argues “action is needed at all levels” including on education

Posted on 4 April 2019 by GEM Report

The 2019 Financing for Sustainable Development Report (FSDR) of the Inter-agency Task Force, whose fourth edition was released today, reviews the global financing landscape to make recommendations for governments. It puts special emphasis on the five Sustainable Development Goals under … Continue reading →

Posted in Finance, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged Finance, financing, SDG 4, SDGs | 2 Comments

Free education for all in Sierra Leone? Can it happen?

Posted on 17 September 2018 by GEM Report

In late August, Sierra Leone’s newly elected President Julius Madaa Bio, announced a five year initiative to roll out free pre-primary, primary and secondary education on 17 September. The new policy is intended to guarantee free school places for one … Continue reading →

Posted in Developing countries, Finance, Inclussion, Uncategorized | Tagged financing, free education, right to education, Sierra Leone | 5 Comments

Using international accountability mechanisms: A test case for private education in Kenya

Posted on 15 May 2018 by GEM Report

By Linda Oduor-Noah, a project manager at The East African Centre for Human Rights (EACHRights) on behalf of nine complainants who submitted a complaint through the complaint mechanism of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in April 2018. EACHRights is a … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, private schools, private sector, privatisation, Uncategorized | Tagged accountability, Bridge Academy, financing, private schools, privatisation, school fees | 1 Comment

Raising billions of dollars for education in Dakar

Posted on 5 February 2018 by GEM Report

With the curtains of the third Financing Conference of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) in Dakar, Senegal now closed, it is important to remember the context in which it was organized. During the first half of this decade, aid … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Donors, Finance, Uncategorized | Tagged aid, finance, financing, global partnership for education | 1 Comment

What is at stake at the GPE Financing Conference?

Posted on 1 February 2018 by GEM Report

The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 3rd replenishment conference (February 1-2) aims to confirm significant increases in commitments from partner countries and donors – old and new – in order to ensure that all children and youth are in school … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, Aid, Finance, Uncategorized | Tagged aid, financing, funding, global partnership for education | 1 Comment

Results based financing in education: is it a challenge to aid effectiveness?

Posted on 1 February 2018 by GEM Report

On the occasion of this week’s Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Financing Conference held in Dakar, Senegal, the GEM Report has released a new policy paperon results-based financing (RBF) in education, a financing modality being promoted strongly by some donors. … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, Aid, Finance, Uncategorized | Tagged aid, aid effectiveness, financing, funding, global partnership for education | 1 Comment

The Tanzanian President has just banned schools from taking any money from pupils

Posted on 19 January 2018 by GEM Report

Free education? What does that really mean? Tanzania made secondary education free in 2015. But, as we know from several editions of the GEM Report, plenty of countries provide ‘free education’ and yet the cost of going to school is … Continue reading →