Author Archives: Kevin Watkins
Telling the truth and shaping a vision for education
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, we have invited the Report’s previous directors to share their views on progress and prospects for Education for All. By Kevin Watkins Was it really three years? When I … Continue reading
Security Council acts to deter attacks on schools
Français | Español By Kevin Watkins, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report The real measure of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report’s impact is not how well it is received by governments, but whether it makes … Continue reading
Posted in Child soldiers, Conflict, Human rights, Sexual violence
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Budget cuts, aid and American national security
Français | Español By Kevin Watkins, director, Education for All Global Monitoring Report There’s nothing quite like a fiscal crisis to secure the triumph of short-termism over the long-term national interest. The United States stands to gain a great deal from … Continue reading
Aid donors get an F for education
Français | Español Poor people understand the power of education to transform lives – yet education receives just 2% of humanitarian aid By Kevin Watkins, director, Education for All Global Monitoring Report If you want to see iron resolve in action, … Continue reading
Let’s keep our promise to the world’s children
Every child knows that you shouldn’t break a promise. Yet governments are on the brink of breaking a Millennium Development Goal promise made to the world’s children – the promise of a decent quality basic education for all by 2015. … Continue reading
Too little, too late: the cost of aid delays
Lives are being lost needlessly because of an aid system that favours crisis response over prevention By Kevin Watkins, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report from The Guardian, August 2, 2010 Last year, a militia attacked 12-year-old … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Conflict, Developing countries, Donors, Marginalization
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Giving education a sporting chance
By Kevin Watkins, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report You are probably wondering what a UN official is doing writing about the World Cup. So let me start with an assurance. I’m not about to offer post-match … Continue reading
When education saves lives (2): reducing maternal mortality
By Kevin Watkins, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report There are few starker indicators of global inequality than maternal mortality. Risks of death from causes associated with pregnancy in childbirth are heavily concentrated in developing countries – … Continue reading
When learning saves lives: education and child mortality
By Kevin Watkins, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report Give a man a fish, as the saying goes, and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you nourish him for a lifetime. But … Continue reading
India’s ground-breaking Right to Education Act
Numerous voices have risen this week to praise India’s historic Right to Education Act, which came into force on 1 April. The new law establishes the right to education of every child aged 6 to 14, and addresses India’s need … Continue reading
