GCE Reports
Realising the right to education for all: GCE Discussion Paper on Education Post-2015 Global Campaign for Education 2012During 2012-2013 GCE has consulted with its membership to develop a strong statement of what we believe should come next in terms of post-2015 international frameworks and agreements on education. Based on the huge response, we have produced a discussion paper that aims to synthesise and summarise reflections on previous frameworks, and priorities for post-2015.
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Every Child Needs a Teacher: Closing the Trained Teacher Gap Global Campaign for Education and Education International 2012To ensure everyone can realise their right to education we must make sure everyone has access to a trained teacher. However, there is an acute shortage of teachers. To get every child into primary school, we need 1.7 million more teachers – 1 million more in Africa alone. In addition, each teacher must have quality initial and ongoing training. This report is part of GCE's Every Child Needs a Teacher campaign and identifies the gaps in the supply of teachers needed to achieve quality education for all.
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Rights from the Start: Early Childhood Care and Education Global Campaign for Education 2012
This report highlights the disastrous impact of neglecting early years care and education. The report was written on behalf of GCE by Vernor Muñoz, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, with contributions from Emeritus Professor Peter Moss of the University of London and Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova.
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A more ambitious, effective Global Partnership for Education: New briefing by civil society organisations Global Campaign for Education and Oxfam International, May 2012
The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) has become a major player in education aid; it has significant strengths but also major weaknesses. This briefing, co-authored by GCE and Oxfam International and published by 5 global/regional networks and 9 INGOs across the GCE membership, aims to provide recommendations to remedy those weaknesses.
Gender Discrimination in Education: The violation of rights of women and girls Global Campaign for Education, February 2012
This report presents the results of a GCE survey of children and teachers conducted November 2011-February 2012. It highlights shocking disparities of experience between genders, with evidence that girls around the world are experiencing gender discrimination from the age of just seven years
This report presents the results of a GCE survey of children and teachers conducted November 2011-February 2012. It highlights shocking disparities of experience between genders, with evidence that girls around the world are experiencing gender discrimination from the age of just seven years
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Fund the Future: Education Rights Now Global Campaign for Education, November 2011
This report calls for urgent increases and improvements in aid to education if the world is to have any chance of meeting the Education for All goals by 2015. Despite recent gains in education, 61 million children are still without the chance of an education. The report has been written by global education experts - and pulls together ten key principles for financing the future of education, and achieving Education for All.
This report calls for urgent increases and improvements in aid to education if the world is to have any chance of meeting the Education for All goals by 2015. Despite recent gains in education, 61 million children are still without the chance of an education. The report has been written by global education experts - and pulls together ten key principles for financing the future of education, and achieving Education for All.
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Make it Right for Girls Global Campaign for Education and Results, August 2011
This report, co-authored by the GCE and RESULTS, shows that millions of girls are being forced out of school because of poverty, child labour, early child marriage, the threat of sexual violence, inadequate and poor-quality schools. It examines 80 poor countries, with DRC, Egypt, India, Iraq, Nigeria and Pakistan among those countries failing to respect the rights of girls to an education.
This report, co-authored by the GCE and RESULTS, shows that millions of girls are being forced out of school because of poverty, child labour, early child marriage, the threat of sexual violence, inadequate and poor-quality schools. It examines 80 poor countries, with DRC, Egypt, India, Iraq, Nigeria and Pakistan among those countries failing to respect the rights of girls to an education.
Writing the Wrongs: International Benchmarks on Adult Literacy Global Campaign for Education, November 2005Based on original research conducted by GCE, this report identifies five compelling reasons to invest in adult literacy and offers benchmarks to drive achievement of the Education For All adult literacy goal.
A Fair Chance: Attaining Gender Equality in Basic Education Global Campaign for Education, 2005
This report was produced to inform the work of education campaigners in the field of gender equality, including nine country studies from Africa and Asia to exemplify the progress and the huge strides that remain to be made to achieve this goal.
Learning to survive: How education for all would save millions of young people from HIV/AIDS Global Campaign for Education, 2004
This analysis suggests that if all children received a complete primary education, the economic impact of HIV/AIDS could be greatly reduced and around 700,000 cases of HIV in young adults could be prevented each year – 7 million in a decade.
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Broken Promises? Why donors must deliver on the EFA Action Plan Global Campaign for Education, September 2003
This report was produced to urge donors to commit to the promises made repeatedly to achieve Education for All through increased financing.
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Good Practice
CIVIL SOCIETY ADVOCATING FOR THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION: stories and lessons learned from Latin America and the CaribbeanCLADE, 2012
This publication has been produced with the objective of disseminating some of these actions and sharing lessons learned from these three years of project implementation
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Civil society advocacy: good practice and case studiesGCE, June 2012
This brochure looks at the examples of Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique in the areas of influencing policy, prioritising education in a national context and influencing the delivery of education. It has been compiled as part of the work of the Civil Society Education Fund.
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Persuading Powers: Stories from Education Coalitions in Asia PacificASPBAE/GCE, June 2012
This booklet provides and in-depth exploration across 12 national education coalitions including Bangladesh, Mongolia and Vietnam of issues such as direct government advocacy, using Global Action Week as a platform for change and working across government departments to effect change.
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Real World Strategies: A story of civil society advocacyGCE, July 2011
The Real World Strategies project was funded by the government of the Netherlands and provided crucial support to national education coalitions advocating for the right to education. This report includes case studies from Latin America, Africa and Asia across diverse areas including campaigns for transparency, mothers' education and working with out-of-school young people.
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The Quality Resource PackGCE, 2010
This pack is a product of an ongoing process undertaken by GCE to address the issue of quality education. Its aim is to offer national coalitions and education CSOs pertinent background information on the quality debate, goals, challenges and imperatives as well as concrete guidelines for organising participatory, action-oriented workshops targeting advocacy action plans on quality issues.
Quality Pack Part 2: download in English
Evaluation Reports
Regional and National Civil Society Education Funds: CSEF Evaluation Report
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CSEF Evaluation: Country Reports
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GCE School Reports
The GCE School Reports series (2003 - 2010) identified where progress has and has not been made in the achievement of Education for All across the world. Countries are given a score and grade according to achievement against indicators including the achievement of universal basic education (UBE), spending on education, numbers of enrolments and growth, access to trained teachers and learning materials, equity for disadvantaged groups and delivery on promises made at Dakar in 2000.
Back to School: World's Worst Places to be a School Child Global Campaign for Education, June 2010
Somalia and Haiti have topped a list of the world's worst places to be a school child in this report from the Global Campaign for Education, backed by organisations including Education International, Oxfam, Plan, Save the Children and VSO warned that poor countries are teetering on the brink of an education crisis with the growth in access to education now stalling.
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Education on the Brink: Will the IMF’s new lease on life ease or block progress towards education goals? Global Campaign for Education, 2009
This report, written in the midst of the global economic crisis, makes the case for investment in education. It outlines the obstacles to expanding investment in education – and scrutinises how the traditional policy conditions and recent policy changes made by the IMF affect education.
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No Excuses: Global Report Card Global Campaign for Education 2008
Not Up to Scratch: Global Report Card 2007
Underachievers: Global Report Card 2006
Missing the Mark: Global Report Card 2005:
Must Try Harder: Global Report Card 2003:
Education For All Global Monitoring Report
Education Resources from GCE Members
Africa Network Campaign for Education for All (ANCEFA)
Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education (ASPBAE)
Campaña Latinoamericana por el Derecho a la Educación (CLADE)
ActionAid International
Education International
Oxfam International: Education Publications
Oxfam 2011
Rescuing Education For All:
Oxfam 2010
Oxfam 2009
Plan International
Save the Children (UK)
VSO International
