Recurso Thematic Paper on MDG 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education Primary education is a powerful driver for realizing all of the MDGs and for sustainable development more generally. MDG2 – providing a full course of primary schooling for everyone in every country – will not be attained everywhere by the target date of 2015. However, significant achievements in expanding access to schooling have been made in many countries during the past decade.
Recurso Can global standards be practical and flexible? Lessons learnt from the INEE Minimum Standards application and analysis processes Drawing on the experience of the INEE Minimum Standards, this paper examines the tensions and relations between standards as a global quality and accountability reference framework and standards as a concrete tool for practitioners and policymakers.
Recurso Last in Line, Last in School; How donors are failing children in conflict-affected fragile states Half of the world’s out-of-school population – 39 million children – live in conflict-affected fragile states (CAFS), even though these countries make up just 13 per cent of the world’s population.
Recurso Integrating Quality Education With Humanitarian Response For Humanitarian Accountability: The Sphere-INEE Companionship The signature of a companionship agreement between the Sphere Project and INEE in October 2008 is a key achievement for humanitarian action as it formally recognises the importance of education as a humanitarian response and the quality of the INEE Minimum Standards as the reference tool for the provision of these services.
Recurso A Global Report Card Ranking Governments' Efforts to Achieve Education for All The Global Campaign for Education believes that, halfway to the Education For All deadline of 2015, governments are failing their children and jeopardizing the lives and prospects of future generations. Their broken promises are cast into sharp relief by this, the first global version of the GCE 'School Report'.
Recurso The World Classroom: Developing Global Partnerships in Education School links provide pupils with new horizons and new opportunities. But many children do not have even the opportunity to go to school. The UK Government is committed to ensuring that all children, everywhere, have that chance in life.
Recurso EFA Global Monitoring Report 2007: Strong Foundations, Early Childhood Care and Education The Education for All Monitoring Report 2007 looks at the benefits of programmes for the very young and why countries have been slow to implement policies that integrate care, health, nutrition and education.
Recurso Progress for Children: A Report Card on Water and Sanitation This report card, the fifth in a UNICEF series that monitors progress for children towards the MDGs, measures the world’s performance in water and sanitation.
Recurso Education for All Nepal: Review from a conflict perspective This Review of the Education For All (EFA) programme in Nepal was commissioned by the Finnish Embassy on behalf of the group of supporting donors and undertaken by a team of consultants contracted by International Alert. The intention is to examine the EFA programme in relation to conflict and the current political crisis.
Recurso EFA Global Monitoring Report 2005: The Quality Imperative In the many countries that are striving to guarantee all children the right to education, the focus on access often overshadows the issue of quality. Yet quality stands at the heart of Education for All. It determines how much and how well students learn, and the extent to which their education achieves a range of personal, social and development goals.
