[EQ] Education For All Global Monitoring Report focuses on inequalities

Education For All Global Monitoring Report focuses on inequalities

Overcoming inequality: why governance matters

 

UNESCO - Paris, 25 November, 2008

 

The failure of governments across the world to tackle deep and persistent inequalities in education is consigning millions of children to lives of poverty and diminished opportunity, according to a report published by UNESCO today

 

Website: http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=44116&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

 

Launched at the International Conference on Education (Geneva, Switzerland) the annual assessment of the Education For All campaign is entitled “Overcoming inequality: why governance matters”.

 

Press release - ENG | FRA | SPA | ARA | CHI | RUS

Summary - ENG | FRA | SPA

“……in many countries governance reforms have two major defects: a lack of attention to tackling inequality and a tendency to apply blueprints, in particular in turning to the private sector to solve public sector problems. New approaches to education governance are needed.
The Report pinpoints areas where government action is necessary:

Commit to the reduction of disparities based on wealth, location, ethnicity, gender and other indicators for disadvantage. Governments should develop well defined targets for reducing disparities and monitor progress towards their achievement.

Sustain political leadership to reach education targets and tackle inequality through clear policy objectives and improved coordination within government and beyond (civil society, the private sector and marginalized groups).

Strengthen policies for reducing poverty and deep social inequalities which hinder progress towards education for all. Governments should integrate education planning into wider poverty-reduction strategies.

Raise quality standards in education and work to ensure that disparities in learning achievement between regions, communities and schools are reduced.

Increase national education spending, especially in developing countries that chronically under invest in education.

Put equity at the centre of financing strategies in order to reach disadvantaged children through more accurate estimates of the costs of reducing disparities and the development of incentives for reaching the most marginalized.

Full Report online:

·         Highlights

·         Overview

·         Chapters

1.       Education for all: human right and catalyst for development

2.       The Dakar goals: monitoring progress and inequality

3.       Raising quality and strengthening equity: why governance matters

4.       Increasing aid and improving governance

5.       Policy conclusions and recommendations

·         Annex

1.       The Education for All Development Index

2.       Global and regional patterns in education decision-making

3.       Statistical tables

4.       Aid tables

5.       Glossary

6.       References

7.       Abbreviations

8.       Index

Regional Fact Sheets

·         Arab States | ARA

·         Central Asia and Central and Eastern Europe | RUS

·         East Asia and the Pacific

·         Latin America and the Caribbean | SPA

·         South and West Asia

·         Sub-Saharan Africa

 

 

 

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