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Title: Renewing the International Compact on Education for All: A Global Fund for Education


1
Renewing the International Compact on Education
for All A Global Fund for Education?
  • Sarah Beardmore
  • RESULTS Educational Fund

2
The Global Compact Education for All
  • The EFA Compact is a worldwide commitment to
    provide quality basic education for all children
  • First launched at the 1990 World Conference on
    Education for All in Jomtien, Thailand but for
    a decade not much was done
  • In 2000, the World Education Forum adopted the
    Dakar Framework of Action committing to provide
    the resources necessary to help countries
    strengthen their educational systems. The
    Millennium Development goals further enshrined
    this as global public policy with goals 2 and
    3.
  • The framework provided goals, strategies and
    resource commitments to achieve Education for
    All.

3
6 Education for All Goals
  • Early childhood care and education
  • Universal Primary Education
  • Meeting the lifelong learning needs of youth and
    adults
  • Adult Literacy
  • Gender
  • Quality

4
The Scope of the Problem
  • 75 million children of primary school age are not
    in school, Almost half of this age group live in
    sub-Saharan Africa.
  • 226 million adolescents are out of secondary
    school and 770 million adults currently lack
    basic literacy skills.
  • 55 of out-of-school children are girls
  • Fragile states account for at least 37 of out of
    school children over 30 million children
  • 8 countries have more than 1 million
    out-of-school children Bangladesh, Burkina Faso,
    Ethiopia, India, Kenya, the Niger, Nigeria and
    Pakistan

5
Financing Education
  • The estimated financing gap to achieve universal
    quality basic education is estimated by UNESCO as
    11 billion dollars annually. DFID has an even
    higher number at 16 billion which considers
    lower secondary school as well.
  • In 2005, donors pledged to increase aid by 50
    billion by 2010. Current aid commitments point
    to an impending shortfall of 30 billion against
    this pledge, almost half of it in sub-Saharan
    Africa
  • Aid commitments for basic education have
    stagnated since 2004, calling into question
    medium-term financing commitments
  • Total aid last year was US3.8 billion from a
    handful of donors but with the fiscal and
    economic crises many donors will be temped to
    scale back their support to developing countries.

6
Is the Global Compact Failing?
  • Global Monitoring Report Press Release
  • Sharp drop in aid to basic education jeopardizes
    school chances for millions
  • Paris, 23 April Sharp declines in aid to basic
    education to developing countries threatens to
    reverse progress towards the international goal
    of universal primary schooling. This is the stark
    conclusion drawn by UNESCOs Education for All
    Global Monitoring Report Team.
  • According to the latest figures from the OECDs
    Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) for
    2007, total aid commitments to basic education
    declined from US 5.5 billion in 2006 to US 4.3
    billion in 2007, representing a decrease of
    nearly 22.

7
Education and the Economic Crisis The Triple Hit
  • The current global economic crises has already
    pushed 100 million people into poverty in 2008
    alone. Looking ahead, the crisis could lead to
    expenditure cuts as incomes fall and domestic
    fiscal revenues drop sharply. Families,
    governments and donors will have less to spend on
    education.
  • With declining household incomes, direct and
    indirect costs of schooling become a heavier
    burden
  • Dwindling resources may put pressure on school
    quality
  • Teachers may seek income elsewhere and a large
    number of students may transfer from private
    schools to public schools
  • Countries will have less fiscal revenues to
    dedicate to the education sector
  • Cuts in international donor assistance would
    exacerbate an already tight fiscal situation.

8
Hope?
  • Amidst this crisis, Barack Obama announces a
    commitment to provide 2 billion dollars for a
    Global Education Fund.

Above all, we must do our part to see that all
children have the basic right to learn.Thats
why the third commitment Ill make is working to
erase the global primary education gap by 2015.
Every child every boy and girl should have
the ability to go to school. To ensure that our
nation does its part to meet that goal, we need
to establish a 2 billion dollar Global Education
Fund. (Clinton Global Initiative, September
25, 2008)
9
US Leadership on EFA
Nita Lowey, Ranking Member of the House Foreign
Operations Appropriations Subcommittee affirmed
this commitment just 2 months ago. President
Obama has called for a Global Fund for Education.
The next few years, under this leadership, the
United States can demonstrate we will stand
behind our commitment to support a global effort
to creatively and holistically provide the
resources, expertise, and technical assistance to
put every girl and boy in a quality school.
There are conversations in Washington and in
other donor capitals about what the next steps
should be in the global effort to meet the
Education for All goals. Later this year, the
evaluation of the World Banks Fast Track
Initiative will be released offering the global
community the opportunity to come together to
develop a new way forward. Taking lessons from
FTI and other global campaigns, the basic
education community should establish its
strategic plan for reaching the 2015 goals.
10
Fast Track Initiative
  • A global partnership between donors and
    developing countries to accelerate progress
    toward achieving Universal Primary Education
    (UPE).
  • Designed around the idea of mutual commitments
  • Developing countries
  • prioritize primary education,
  • produce national education plans
  • increase domestic education funding
  • Donors
  • provide coordinated and increased financial and
    technical assistance

11
Building on FTI
  • Achievements
  • Grown from a fairly small partnership since 2002
    to a large international initiative with 37
    endorsed countries and 17 donors.
  • 1.3 billion pledged to support countries basic
    education strategies
  • Operationalized harmonization and alignment of
    donors at country level around NEPs
  • Model of country ownership with country level
    processes which put the implementing partner
    governments in the drivers seat
  • Driven policy dialogues and capacity development
    which have changed the way donors work together,
    with some very positive impacts
  • BUT it currently faces a shortfall of 1.2
    billion just to meet the needs of these countries
    through the end of 2010.

12
FTIs Evolution
  • The FTI has evolved considerably since 2002 to
    respond to the changing context of its role.
  • More inclusive governance, with expanded seats
    for implementing countries and for civil society
    on its Steering Committee
  • Expanded the Catalyic Fund from a small
    last-resort source of financing for countries
    lacking sufficient external financing into a
    first resort lending source for all eligible
    low-income countries
  • The EPDF fund for technical assistance and
    capacity development has reached a new cycle and
    there is discussion of its financing being made
    available to other players besides the World Bank
  • The Education Transition Fund has been
    established under UNICEF to reach
    conflict-affected countries, which previously
    were not eligible under the framework of
    country-led national education plan endorsement
  • The FTI has commissioned an independent
    evaluation, which will potentially point the way
    forward to continue to improve and expand the
    FTIs impact and incentivize uninvolved donors
    like the US to engage both in its country level
    processes but also to contribute to the
    multilateral pooled funds currently managed under
    FTI.

13
Convergence, the Opportunity to Revive the Global
Compact on Education for All
  • The Global Fund for Education should build on
    existing coordination mechanisms such as those
    pioneered by the Fast Track Initiative. To
    capitalize on this opportunity it is critical
    that the global education community and our
    political leaders be bold, ambitious and
    aspirational in order to operationalize a
    framework which is truly capable of achieving
    EFA. The design of such a Fund should ensure the
    principles of
  • National Ownership
  • Participatory governance
  • Multi-lateral, multi-donor, multi-instrument
  • Increased, longer-term and more predictable
    financing
  • Accountability for results

14
The Future of a Global Fund for Education
  • Model for Multilateralism and Aid Effectiveness
  • The Global Fund for Education provides an
    opportunity to build off the strengths of
    existing mechanisms and translate innovations
    from health and other sectors to provide a model
    for responding to global challenges. The Global
    Fund for Education could leverage more effective
    bilateral education assistance from diverse
    donors and enhance the results of multilateral
    funding translating into better outcomes for
    learners.
  • What is needed now is a multi-stakeholder
    process to formulate the design of a Global Fund
    for Education, both to drive a serious expansion
    of FTI, but by building on its current reforms to
    ensure that they address the full scope of
    challenges facing the FTI so that it is fit for
    purpose in a world that requires the safety net
    of education more than ever before.
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