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

ity

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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