Education post-2015: Equity, measurability and finance
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Pauline Rose Director, Education for All Global Monitoring Report
May 2013
EU Member States Education and Development Experts Meeting, Brussels
Education post-2015: Equity, measurability and finance
Need to reach out to non-education specialists to say education is key to catalyst change
Present new analysis on effects of education to extend Education Counts campaign: to be released beginning of September for the UN General Assembly
Development begins with a good education
Economic benefits
Education:
Reduces poverty
Enhances shared prosperity for all
Creates better jobs
Healthy lives
Education:
Reduces child and maternal mortality
Reduces child malnutrition
Increases child vaccinations
Healthy societies
Education: Empowers women Promotes democracy
and good governance Improves knowledge
and attitudes towards environmental sustainability
One overarching goal for global framework
Dakar: Equitable quality lifelong education and learning for all
GMR: Ensure that by 2030, everyone has an equal opportunity to learn the basics, whatever their circumstances
Save the Children: By 2030 we will ensure all children receive a good-quality education and have good learning outcomes
GCE: By 2030, all children and youth are receiving a quality pre-primary, primary, and lower secondary education
Basic Education Coalition: By 2030, all children and youth should complete primary and lower secondary education which enables them to meet measurable learning standards and acquire relevant skills so they may become responsible, productive members of society
Five individual goals: Equity, measurability and finance
Overall goal: Ensure that by 2030, everyone has an equal opportunity to learn the basics, whatever their circumstances
Individual goals:
1. Completion of early childhood education, primary education and lower secondary education
2. Quality of early childhood care and education, primary education and lower secondary education
3. Acquisition of youth and adult skills
4. Elimination of inequalities
5. Financing of education
Equ
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Average years of schooling misleading measure of progress
Nepal, 17-22 year olds. Mean years of education, 2001-2011
Rwanda and Nigeria, 17-22 year olds. Less than four years of schooling
www.education-inequalities.org
Need to track lowest performing group
Ethiopia, Never been to school aged 7-16 years, 2011
www.education-inequalities.org
Source: OECD-DAC (2012).
Why we need a financing goal
Total aid to education disbursements, 2002 to 2010
2010: US $3 billion spent on basic education in low income countries
By 2030, ensure that no country is prevented from achieving education goals by a lack of resources
US $ billion
DAC Aid US $3 billion
Government ex-penditure
US $25 billion
Average annual resources needed to finance basic education (2012-2015)
US $53 billion
Financing gapUS $26 billion
Government:Increase tax base
7.3
Government:Prioritise basic
education7.5
Donors:Prioritise basic
education4.0
Remaining financing
gap3.4Donors:
Reallocate student imputed costs
2.4
Donors:Meet 0.7% target
1.3
Filling the $26 billion financing gap for basic education
US $ billion
DAC Aid US $3 billion
Government ex-penditure
US $36 billion
Average annual resources needed to financebasic and secondary education (2012-2015)
US $77 billion
Financing gapUS $38 billion
Government:Increase tax base
9.9
Government:Prioritise basic
education9.8
Donors:Prioritise basic
& lower secondary education
6.1
Remaining financing
gap7.6
Donors: Reallocate student
imputed costs3.1
Donors:Meet 0.7% target
1.3
Extending goals to lower secondary widens finance gap to $38 bil
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