| Mar 2008 |
Civil Society Engagement in Education Budgets: A Report Documenting Commonwealth Education Fund Experience
Establishing civil society input into education budgets is key to the Education for All process, requiring capacity-building and enabling civil society organisations to more strategically and substantively influence budgetary decisions and decisions around education budget policy. This report documents Commonwealth Education Fund experience, illustrating how civil society can engage in the budget process through budget analysis; tracking disbursement flows through the education system; monitoring expenditure; and lobbying to influence budget allocations to the education sector. Download the paper here: www.commonwealtheducationfund.org
Author: Commonwealth Education Fund |
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| Feb 2008 |
The Final Countdown: What the UK government should do to achieve EFA by 2015
This paper evaluates the UK Department for International Development’s promises and approach to meeting the education Millennium Development Goals and gives five clear recommendations for action.
Author: Global Campaign for Education - UK |
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| Feb 2008 |
Refugees and displaced communities right to education
This publication is aims to raise awareness of everyone’s right to uninterrupted access to quality and safe education. This tool identifies the right to education and actions that individuals and organisations can take to fulfill these rights, with a focus on refugees, returnees and internally displaced people. Download the toolkit here: http://www.crin.org/docs/right_to_ed_handbook.pdf
Author: Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children |
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| Jan 2008 |
Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in Education
This toolkit aims to help education staff to support the process of mainstreaming HIV and AIDS into education sector planning and implementation. It provides resources and support to assess the progress countries have made with respect to HIV and AIDS mainstreaming; to identify entry points and opportunities; and to establish priorities for advocacy and action. It is designed to be used as a reference tool or a resource for training and discussion, depending on the local needs and context. Download the full report here http://www.ungei.org/resources/1612_1698.html
Author: UN Inter-Agency Task Team on Education |
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| Jan 2008 |
New Partnerships for EFA: Building on Experience
UNESCO Director, Koïchiro Matsuura launched new ‘Partnerships for Education’ at the World Economic Forum to encourage multi-sector partnerships with the private sector for achieving EFA. Download the report here: http://www.unesco.org/iiep/PDF/pubs/Partnerships_EFA.pdf
Author: UNESCO and IIEP |
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| Dec 2007 |
Teacher Supply, Recruitment and Retention in 6 Anglophone Sub-Saharan African Countries
This study pinpoints teacher shortage as a major threat to Education for All. The study reveals that Gambia, Lesotho, Tanzania and, to some extent, Uganda have a serious shortage of qualified teachers at both primary and secondary levels. For example, in 2006, 44% of the primary school teachers and 42% of the secondary school teachers in Lesotho were unqualified. Download the report here: http://www.campaignforeducation.org/documents/news/2008/feb/EI%20Africa%20Study.pdf
Author: Education International |
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| Dec 2007 |
FTI 2007 Annual Report: Quality Education for All Children
The annual report documents progress in 32 countries with education sector plans endorsed by the FTI. Eighteen of these countries receive financial support from the Catalytic Fund, a multi-donor trust fund that provides additional financing to help countries implement their education sector plans. Download the report here: http://www.education-fast-track.org/library/AR2007_Eng_Full.pdf
Author: Fast Track Initiative |
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| Dec 2007 |
New Education Laws in Latin America: An analysis considering the social and educational panorama of the region
The book seeks to be a tool for political pressure and demands as it analysis recently enacted education laws throughout Latin America. Knowing the legal frameworks that govern countries is essential in order for one to legally claim the right to education. And it's in this mind that this books attempts to identify common trends in the new education laws that have been enacted in the region in the past few years. Download the report here: http://www.campanaderechoeducacion.org/publications.list.php?s=campaign
Author: CLADE |
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| Nov 2007 |
UNESCO 2008: Global Monitoring Report - Will We Make It? - Summary
The sixth edition of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report is an assessment of where the world stands on the commitment to provide basic education for all children, youth and adults by 2015. Half way to the internationally agreed target of Education for All by 2015, the 2008 GMR testifies to considerable progress but also major challenges. While the number of out-of-school children has dropped sharply and primary education has leaped ahead, 774 million adults around the world still lack literacy skills and 72 million children are deprived of school. Futher more there was a worrying drop in aid to education in the latest data. The Report outlines the main challenges that remain, how much aid is needed and whether or not aid is being targeted properly. Download the full report here: http://www.efareport.unesco.org/
Author: UNESCO |
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| Nov 2007 |
Slovak Republic: Still separate, still unequal : Violations of the right to education of Romani children in Slovakia
This report reveals that Romani children placed unnecessarily in special schools receive a reduced curriculum and have practically no possibilities of reintegrating into mainstream schools or advancing to secondary education. The report calls on the authorities of Slovakia to state loud and clear their determination to eradicate segregation in the education of Romani children and to take swift measures to reverse it.
Author: Amnesty International |
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| Nov 2007 |
Window on the Future 2025: Projections of Education Attainment and its impact
Window on the Future 2025: Projections of Education Attainment and its impact. Download the report here: http://www.epdc.org/static/WindowOnTheFuture2025.pdf
Author: Education Policy & Data Centre |
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| Nov 2007 |
Can We Close the Education Gap?
Can we close the education gap? This edition of Global Future examines the effectiveness of the international community’s efforts to achieve education for all, and what needs to change for the next seven years if the MDGs for education are to succeed. Download the report here: http://www.globalfutureonline.org/
Author: World Vision |
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| Sep 2007 |
Europe: Education for Some More than Others?
14 million children are being excluded from education every year in Central and Eastern Europe and the now Independent States of the former Soviet Republic. This report found that public expenditure on education reinforced rather than counteracted social, ethnic and economic inequalities in access to and completion of basic education and calls for governments to substantially increase spending on education to at least 6 per cent of their gross domestic product - the current regional average is 3 to 4 per cent.
Author: UNICEF |
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| Sep 2007 |
Education's Missing Millions: including disabled children in education through EFA FTI process and national sector plans
It has been estimated that one third of the children still out of school are disabled children, and that fewer than 10 per cent of disabled children in Africa attend school. This research report focuses on how the Education for All Fast Track Initiative (FTI) Partnership is tackling the challenges of disability and inclusion in education.
Author: World Vision UK |
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| Sep 2007 |
Global AIDS Alliance report and call to action on School-Related Violence
The Global AIDS Alliance has released a report based on a review of the Educational Sector Plans (ESPs) of ten African countries that are being supported by the World Bank's Education for All–Fast Track Initiative (FTI). Titled Violence Free Zone: End School-Related Violence, Prevent HIV/AIDS, the report recommends concrete action steps for the Fast Track Initiative, national governments and their education ministries, and donor governments and agencies in order to scale up effective, comprehensive programs to prevent, counter, and respond to school-related violence.
Author: Global AIDS Alliance |
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| Sep 2007 |
Research Matters
Research plays a vital role in supporting ideas and opinions to inform public policy. It is no longer the domain of academics alone. Released at the EI Congress in July, 'Research Matters: Research as a Union Tool to Improve Educational Policy' advises on how to initiate and use research to promote unions' political goals. It also gives concrete examples of unions – in South Africa, India , Sweden, Argentina and Tanzania – who have seen their research leave a significant imprint on policy in these countries.
Author: Education International |
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| Sep 2007 |
LINKS Malawi & Zambia Education Advocacy Coalitions Study Tour
VSO Education Programme Managers, Education coalitions and Teacher Union Representatives from Ethiopia, Nepal, Mozambique and Rwanda visited colleagues in Malawi and Zambia to learn from their experiences. Together they learnt how best to organise, coordinate and fund advocacy activities and overcome common challenges.
Author: VSO |
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| Sep 2007 |
TEACHERS SPEAK OUT: A policy research report on teachers' motivation and perceptions of their profession in the Gambia
VSO The Gambia, the Gambia Education for All Campaign Network and The Gambia Teachers’ Union, undertook research into the issues affecting teachers, specifically to find out from teachers in the Gambia what issues affect their motivation and morale. The focus on teachers is in recognition of the key role they play in achieving quality education for all.
Author: VSO |
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| Sep 2007 |
More and better teachers needed (Insights on education 6)
Eighteen million primary school teachers are needed over the next decade to meet Universal Primary Education (UPE) goals. The research document summarises recent research that addresses some of the issues of teachers and achieving EFA. Including: Effective professional development, Teacher Absenteeism, Gender equality and HIV and AIDS, Political Violence and Policy Initiatives.
Author: id21 - Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex |
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| Sep 2007 |
Educating Children in Emergency Settings: An Unexpected Lifeline
This report written by Gerald Martone of the International Rescue committee, argues that providing educational services for children is a vital intervention during emergencies, chronic crises, and early phases of reconstruction. With relief organizations focusing on ‘lifesaving’ assistance such as providing food, shelter, and water, the emotional well-being, development and ‘quality of life’ of refugees and is de-prioritised. With the average length of refugee displacement being 17 years, the stark reality is generations of children are raised without access to education.
Author: Gerald Martone, IRC |
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| Jul 2007 |
Funding Change: Sustaining civil society advocacy in education
The report argues identifies ways to sustain and strengthen civil society advocacy after the Commonwealth Education Fund comes to an end in 2008. It argues for significant national investment through Civil Society Education Funds (CSEFs), registered in each country, with help from international donors.
Author: Commonwealth Education Fund |
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| Jul 2007 |
Education For All: Civic, Social and Political Education Resource Pack
This resource enables teachers and students to explore the issue of education and its importance in the fight against poverty. It also provides opportunities for students to play an active role in the annual Global Action Week for Education, which takes place in April of every year all around the world.
Author: Irish GCE Coalition |
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| Jul 2007 |
United Nations: Millennium Development Goals Report 2007
This report presents a global assessment of progress to date on meeting the Millennium Development Goals. The report shows that progress has been made in getting more children into school in the developing world. Enrolment in primary education grew from 80 per cent in 1991 to 88 per cent in 2005. It also points out that much still needs to be done.
Author: UN |
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| May 2007 |
Education Rights: A Guide for Practitioners and Activists
This resource guides people working at local and national levels around the world in taking on a rights-based approach to education (rather than a service delivery/needs-based approach). It draws on practical experiences from over 20 countries and benefited from the advice of the late Katarina Tomasevski (former UN Speical Rapporteur on the Right to Education), to whom the pack is dedicated.
Author: GCE and ActionAid |
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| Apr 2007 |
Involving Global School Partnerships in the Global Campaign for Education
This resource is aimed at schools and offers guidance and ideas of to encourage global school partnerships, and how to introduce them to campaigning for education. The resource is particularly useful for schools in the UK that are using the lesson plans available on www.sendmyfriend.org/teachers.
Author: VSO and GCE |
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| Apr 2007 |
Confronting the Contradictions
How the economic policies of the International Monetary Fund are forcing poor countries to either freeze, or seriously curtail, spending on teachers.
Author: ActionAid |
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| Dec 2006 |
Big Book 2006 Poster
The poster accompanies the 2006 Big Book - celebratinga the campaign through out the year that demaned 'Every Child Needs a Teacher'
Author: GCE |
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| Dec 2006 |
Big Book 2006
This Big Book describes the activities that education campaigners undertook thoughout 2006 under the slogan 'Every Child Needs a Teacher'. The book is split in two sections page 1-30 and page 31-60.
Author: GCE |
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| Dec 2006 |
The State of the World's Children 2007
The State of the World’s Children shows how promoting gender equality and empowering women – Millennium Development Goal number 3 – will propel all of the other goals, from reducing poverty and hunger to saving children’s lives, improving maternal health, ensuring universal education, combating HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases, and ensuring environmental sustainability.
Author: UNICEF |
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| Nov 2006 |
Cancelling the Caps: Why the EFA movement must confront wage bill caps now
Author: ActionAid |
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| Nov 2006 |
Free, Quality Education for Every Afghan Child
Half of the children in Afghanistan still do not go to school despite a 500 per cent increase in enrolments in the last six years. With the establishment of democracy, the main symbol of national regeneration lay in the dream of educating every child – boy and girl. However, there remain many obstacles to achieving this dream. This briefing paper outlines some of the key concerns, and proposes a plan for not only increased funding, but also reforming budget allocation and planning within the Ministry of Education and amongst other actors in the education sector.
Author: Oxfam |
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| Nov 2006 |
The DATA Report 2006 - Education
This report focuses specifically on the G8 donors, their commitment to education in Africa and what actions are necessaryto achieve those goals.
Author: DATA |
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| Nov 2006 |
Global Monitoring Report 2007: Strong Foundations Early Childhood Care and Education
Every year, the EFA Global Monitoring Report assesses where the world stands on its commitment to provide a basic education to all children, youth and adults by 2015. More GMR information can be downloaded from the UNESCO website: http://www.efareport.unesco.org/
Author: UNESCO |
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| Sep 2006 |
Keeping the Promise: Five Benefits of Girls' Secondary Education
Keeping the Promise: Five Benefits of Girls' Secondary Education, provides data and analysis on how girls' education reduces poverty, is a strategy to mitigate HIV and AIDS, improves health, and strengthens civic participation, as well as creating a better environment for increasing access and quality of education.
Author: The Academy for Educational Development and May A Rihani with Lisa Kays & Stephanie Psaki |
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