Education post-2015: Equity, measurability and finance Pauline Rose Director, Education for All Global Monitoring Report

May 2013 EU Member States Education and Development Experts Meeting, Brussels

Development begins with a good education

 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

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

Average years of schooling misleading measure of progress Rwanda and Nigeria, 17-22 year olds. Less than four years of schooling Nepal, 17-22 year olds. Mean years of education, 2001-2011

www.education-inequalities.org

Need to track lowest performing group

Ethiopia, Never been to school aged 7-16 years, 2011

www.education-inequalities.org

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 Source: OECD-DAC (2012).

Filling the $26 billion financing gap for basic education Average annual resources needed to finance basic education (2012-2015)

US $53 billion

US $ billion

Donors:

Meet 0.7% target 1.3

Financing gap

US $26 billion

Donors:

Reallocate student imputed costs 2.4

Remaining financing gap 3.4

Government:

Increase tax base 7.3

DAC Aid

US $3 billion

Donors:

Prioritise basic education 4.0

Government:

Prioritise basic education 7.5

Government expenditure

US $25 billion

Extending goals to lower secondary widens finance gap to $38 bil Average annual resources needed to finance basic and secondary education (2012-2015)

US $77 billion US $ billion Financing gap

US $38 billion DAC Aid US $3 billion

Donors:

Meet 0.7% target 1.3

Donors:

Reallocate student imputed costs 3.1

Remaining financing gap 7.6

Government:

Increase tax base 9.9

Donors:

Prioritise basic & lower secondary education 6.1

Government:

Prioritise basic education 9.8

Government expenditure

US $36 billion

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