Category Archives: Innovative financing
What’s in a name? Rebranding the EFA Fast Track Initiative
Français | Español By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report While world leaders were gathering at the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week, an event on the sidelines signalled a change that … Continue reading
On the margins in the wealthy West
By Karen Moore, policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report Français | Español The word marginalization often brings to mind those in the world’s poorest countries. But on a trip to Canada last week I was reminded of one of … Continue reading
The problem with cash-on-delivery aid
By Paolo de Renzio, Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford University Nancy Birdsall’s response on this blog to the issues raised about cash-on-delivery aid in the 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report reflect the amount of work that has gone … Continue reading
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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
Cash on delivery: linking aid to results
By Nancy Birdsall, William D. Savedoff and Ayah Mahgoub, Center for Global Development, Washington Cash-on-delivery aid is a proposed new approach under which donors would commit to pay a specific amount for a specific measure of progress. Recent endorsements of … Continue reading
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BRIEFLY: Let’s find new ways of funding inclusive education
“More innovative forms of financing – at both the domestic and the international level – must be found if Education for All is to become a reality,” argues Nicholas Burnett, former Director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, … Continue reading
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BRIEFLY: Canada and the G8 – an education opportunity
Two striking pieces in Canadian newspapers use the launch in Ottawa on Thursday March 25, of the 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report as a springboard to consider how the Group of 8 summit in Canada in June could … Continue reading
72 million reasons to join 1GOAL’s campaign for education
By Adrian Lovett, chair of the 1GOAL campaign committee Congratulations Kevin Watkins and UNESCO. This site will change the world. A decade or so ago when we were building the Jubilee 2000 campaign to drop the debts of the poorest … Continue reading
THE FUNDING GAP, 1: The G-8 needs to stick to its promises
Last year, leaders of the G-8 group of rich countries made a bold promise to the world’s children: No country seriously committed to Education for All, they said, would be thwarted in its achievement because of lack of resources. Impressed? … Continue reading
THE FUNDING GAP, 2: How donors can meet their pledges
In 2000, rich countries promised that no country seriously committed to achieving Education for All by 2015 would be thwarted because of lack of resources. The promise has been repeated at every summit for the past decade, but projections in … Continue reading
