Category Archives: Finance

Mission: Recovering Education 2021

Posted on 30 March 2021 by GEM Report

By Stefania Giannini, Robert Jenkins and Jaime Saavedra 🔊 Listen to this blog When your house is on fire, you don’t worry about how big it is, the colour of the paint on the walls, or whether the kitchen is … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster preparedness, emergencies, Finance, Learning, Out-of-school children, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, learning, out of school, target 4.1, target 4.6, Target 4.a | 1 Comment

How will countries make up for lost learning during the pandemic?

Posted on 25 March 2021 by GEM Report

🔊 Listen to this blog As one lockdown week morphs into another, the learning of millions of students continues to be disrupted. UNESCO figures show, on average, two-thirds of an academic year has been lost worldwide due to COVID-19 school closures. The learning loss is enormous. The … Continue reading →

Posted in curriculum, Finance, Learning, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, curriculum, finance, financing, learning, target 4.1, target 4.6 | 1 Comment

Gender bias can be seen in the way families spend their money on education

Posted on 15 March 2021 by GEM Report

🔊 Listen to this blog The black box of who controls and who decides how a family’s monetary and other resources will be spent has long intrigued social scientists. Gender bias in such decisions can negatively affect spending on health … Continue reading →

Posted in Finance, Gender | Tagged finance, financing, Gender, gender equality, household spending | 3 Comments

Two-thirds of poorer countries are cutting education budgets due to COVID-19

Posted on 22 February 2021 by GEM Report

Read in Spanish Education budgets are not adjusting proportionately to the challenges brought about by COVID-19, especially in poorer countries. Despite additional funding needs, two-thirds of low- and lower-middle-income countries have, in fact, cut their public education budgets since the … Continue reading →

Posted in Finance | Tagged budgets, coronavirus, covid19, Education Finance Watch, finance, financing | 1 Comment

COVID-19 has prompted countries to adjust and rethink financing for equity in education

Posted on 1 February 2021 by GEM Report

It has become commonplace to acknowledge that the COVID-19 pandemic has widened the inequalities that pre-existed in education systems and has opened new rifts. We also know that education may be increasingly capturing the media headlines but not finance ministers’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Finance | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, finance, financing | 3 Comments

Time to roll out education’s recovery package

Posted on 25 January 2021 by GEM Report

By Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO Humanity likes clear cut resolutions to crises and flees uncertainty. As the new year begins, the world has neither – the pandemic is resurging, vaccination campaigns are still in their infancy, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Equity, Finance | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, finance, financing, out of school | 2 Comments

Unlocking financing for equity in education

Posted on 25 January 2021 by GEM Report

Read in Spanish SDG 4 includes neither a target nor a global indicator on the level of education financing. Yet, if countries are to achieve the goal of ‘inclusive and equitable’ education by 2030, they need to spend their budgets, … Continue reading →

Posted in Equity, Finance, Innovative financing | Tagged equity, finance, financing, funding | 4 Comments

Act now to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on the cost of achieving SDG4

Posted on 4 September 2020 by GEM Report

English / Español Next week, finance ministers are being convened by the United Nations Secretary-General to look at financing in the era of COVID-19 and beyond. It is critical that they see education as key to the recovery from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Finance, sdg, sdgs | Tagged covid19 | 4 Comments

COVID: A complex crisis that has magnified existing vulnerabilities in Nepal

Posted on 16 June 2020 by GEM Report

By Priyadarshani Joshi, GEM Report The current situation is one of a combined health, economic and political emergency In Nepal, a country where hundreds of thousands receive higher education abroad, the first two confirmed COVID cases were linked to higher … Continue reading →

Posted in digital literacy, Finance, higher education, Marginalization, migrant, migration | Tagged covid19 | 1 Comment

Covid-19: How is Greece coping with school closure?

Posted on 14 April 2020 by GEM Report

As with other countries around the world, Greece has faced two main challenges in its response to the coronavirus pandemic: delivering distance education and managing the postponement of examinations. Other challenges have also appeared, which show that no one approach … Continue reading →