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INEE releases external education financing guide
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 30 August 2010 The Inter-Agency Network for Emergency Education (INEE) has released a Reference Guide on External Education Financing. The INEE Working Group on Education and Fragility developed the guide in response to requests from education specialists for an easily accessible description of the different types of external assistance for education. It is a resource written from the donor point of view, which explains the design, goals, and constraints of existing types of external education assistance in low-income countries, including those in fragile situations. The purpose of the guide is to enable national decision-makers to better navigate country-donor relationships. For a copy of the guide, email
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GCE's 1GOAL Campaign supports Global March Against Child Labour |
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 23 August 2010 The Global Campaign for Education's 1GOAL Campaign is pleased to support the Global March Against Child Labour. The continued existence of child labour is an obstacle to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and, without achieving the MDGs, child labour cannot eliminated. The development goals of achieving the targets and eliminating and preventing child labour are inextricably linked and yet child labour remains as an invisible ninth MDG.
Sign the petition and add your voice to make visible the hidden ninth MDG and ensure that the plight of millions of children around the world will be brought to the attention of the UN and the Heads of State attending the MDG Summit in New York from 20-22 September 2010 and beyond into the follow-up action to accelerate progress to achieve the MDGs.
Your support is vital. We have five short years to considerably accelerate action to achieve the MDGs and eliminate the worst forms of child labour and achieve Education For All.
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Report Urges World Bank on aid effectiveness for education |
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 21 July 2010 A report by RESULTS Educational Fund finds troubling trends in World Bank education lending for the poorest countries – especially in Africa where its proportion of education financing from the Bank was less than 15% in 2009, despite being home to 32 million of the world’s 72 million out-of-school children. In the meantime, just three countries – India, Pakistan and Bangladesh – have received over $4 billion of the World Bank education sector’s $8 billion in lending over the past 10 years. The disproportionate allocation of financing to sub-Saharan Africa has many worried that the kinds of educational gains made in South Asia over the past decade will not replicated on a continent where 40% of the population is currently under the age of 18.
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Making matters worse, the World Bank is increasingly stepping back from education financing in a growing number of low-income countries. These are primarily countries that have joined the Fast Track Initiative, a multi-donor effort to provide additional financing for Education for All. Since 2003, $1.8 billion in grants have been distributed in 32 countries, 22 of them in Africa. Yet, in many countries that have received FTI grants the Bank has moved out; thus, creating a substitution. This is most problematic because donors to the Fast Track Initiative can’t keep up with the pace of demand, and currently have no funding left to distribute. In the meantime, many developing countries are stuck with a volatile, unpredictable, and incoherent aid environment which may leave them out in the cold — short on the external funds needed to implement their education strategies. The report calls on donors to the Bank and the FTI to correct course, including by implementing a matching of funds from each, pooled together in an independent global fund under the FTI partnership.
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