January/February 2011

In the year 2000, the United Nations played a game of "what if"?

• What if we could cut poverty in half?
• What if we could reduce the number of child deaths by two-thirds, and the number of mothers who die by three-fourths?
• What if we could get every child in school?

They called them the Millennium Development Goals, and the critics had a field day. Same old UN, they said. Pie in the sky. Empty promises. Won't happen...But just look at 'what if' for MDG #2.

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To celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day in March, the EFA FTI will launch a new report to highlight the critical importance of girls' education as fundamental to economic and social development of individuals, families and nations.

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Most countries supported by the EFA FTI partnership mention marginalized or out-of-school children in their education sector plans either as a specific target group or in the context of educating children with special needs, or vulnerable groups of children.

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On February 1, 2011 the EFA FTI Secretariat will launch a partnership-wide monitoring exercise engaging Local Education Groups to collect data about how governments, donors and civil society in FTI-endorsed developing partner countries work together to achieve results based on agreed, long-term education sector plans.

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As a follow-up to the discussion on fundraising at the November 2010 FTI Board meeting, Mr. Charles Tapp will work with the FTI Chair and Secretariat Head. As Senior Advisor for Fundraising, he will help to develop strategies for fundraising and will liaise with donors and other partners. Implementation of these strategies over the coming year will lead to a major replenishment event later in the autumn.

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In its second progress report on the implementation of the FTI-financed Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF), the Global Campaign for Education reports on important progress between January and June 2010 in building an influential civil society movement in developing countries to achieve Education for All.

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The next meeting of the FTI Board of Directors will take place in Kigali, Rwanda, hosted by the Rwandan Ministry of Education. The two-day meeting will take place either in the second or the third week of May, 2011.

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The Local Education Group in Juba consisting of representatives of the Ministry of Education, bilateral donors, civil society and UNESCO, UNICEF and World Bank are in the middle of developing an education sector plan for Southern Sudan.

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