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Monitoring SDG 4

In September 2015, at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, Member States formally adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in New York. The agenda contains 17 goals including a new global education goal (SDG 4). SDG 4 is to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’ and has seven targets and three means of implementation.

At the 2015 World Education Forum, the GEM Report received a mandate from 160 governments to monitor and report on:

  • Progress on education in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with particular reference to the SDG 4 monitoring framework
  • The implementation of national and international strategies to help hold all relevant partners to account for their commitments, as part of the overall SDG follow-up and review process.
SDG 4 TargetsGEM Report monitoring chaptersMost recent statisticsGEM Report Blogs
TARGET 4.1: PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION2023 GEM Report
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4.1 statisticsView blogs
TARGET 4.2: EARLY CHILDHOOD2023 GEM Report
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4.2 statisticsView blogs
TARGET 4.3: TECHNICAL, VOCATIONAL, TERTIARY AND ADULT EDUCATION2023 GEM Report
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4.3 statisticsView blogs
TARGET 4.4: TECHNICAL, VOCATIONAL, TERTIARY AND ADULT EDUCATION2023 GEM Report
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4.4 statisticsView blogs
TARGET 4.5: EQUITY2023 GEM Report
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4.5 statisticsView blogs
TARGET 4.6: LITERACY AND NUMERACY2023 GEM Report
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4.6 statisticsView blogs
TARGET 4.7: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP2023 GEM Report
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4.7 statisticsView blogs
TARGET 4.A: EDUCATION FACILITIES AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS2023 GEM Report
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4.A statisticsView blogs
TARGET 4.B: SCHOLARSHIPS2023 GEM Report
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4.B statisticsView blogs
TARGET 4.C: TEACHERS2023 GEM Report
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4.C statisticsView blogs
FINANCE2023 GEM Report
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Finance statisticsView blogs
EDUCATION AND THE SDGS2023 GEM Report
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Ed&SDG statisticsView blogs

Additional material

Accompanying the Sustainable development Framework is the Incheon Declaration adopted by around 1600 participants at the World Education Forum held in Incheon, Republic of Korea in May 2015. The Declaration represents the firm commitment of countries and the global education community to a single, renewed education agenda. A Education 2030 Framework for Action was adopted in November 2015 by UNESCO together with Member States, which outlines how to translate global commitments into practice at a country, regional and global level.

Resources

SDG 4 Scorecard
Statistical tables
Aid tables