As the season changed from winter to spring in Washington, D.C., it was also a season of “firsts” for the FTI Secretariat. Although we are in the midst of preparing for our May Board meetings, we have been keeping busy on all fronts, and have lots of “firsts” that we embarked on this season to share with you….
There is overwhelming evidence that education is one of the best investments a country can make. However, funding for basic education is trending downward as 67 million children are still out of school and hundreds of millions of children are dropping out of school or completing primary school each year functionally illiterate. What are the consequences of donors' disengagement and what can be done to reverse the trend?
From May 16 -19, 2011 Kigali will host of important EFA FTI Spring meetings. The newly-established EFA FTI Financial Advisory Committee (FAC) will hold on Monday 16 May its first ever in-person meeting and will be followed by the spring meeting of the EFA FTI Board of Directors on Wednesday and Thursday 18-19 May.
Afghanistan’s Interim Education Plan was endorsed by the Local Donor Group, making it the 44th developing partner country of the EFA FTI Partnership. This is a major step forward for a country that has been immersed in war for decades and has seen its education sector lagging behind.
From Istanbul at the technical workshop of the Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children, Natasha Graham reports that we need urgent and concrete initiatives to provide education to the estimated 56 million children –nearly half of them in Sub-Saharan Africa—who are at risk of being left out of school by 2015
Bob Prouty's personal take on the 10th High Level Group Meeting on Education for All (EFA) in Jomtien, Thailand. What has been accomplished in the last 21 years since the conference was created? What are the real new developments beyond the speeches and presentations? Read this and other notes from his trip in South Asia:
