What are you doing to build a better world for our children? For the 61 million primary-school-aged children out of school? For the world they will inherit?

Keep reading, your opportunity is right in front of you.

The target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is approaching in 2015. The development community is now starting to shape the post 2015 development agenda. The United Nations jointly with civil society has started a remarkable online engagement to build a collective vision on priorities for a post-2015 development framework.

For the first time, EVERYONE can participate and help shape the World You Want.

Providing universal primary education is one of the 8 MDGs because it is critical to development.

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UNICEF and UNESCO are co-leading online consultations on education that were launched in December 2012. Covering four thematic e-discussions, this global online conversation will help to shape education goals.

The next e-discussion on Governance and Financing of Education will run from February 10-24, 2013.GPE head Robert Prouty will be one of the moderators

Make your voice heard, join the discussion and to contribute your experiences and ideas on how to improve education around the world. Views and comments can be posted in any of the 60 languages that the Google translator supports on the web space.

Join the Consultation at www.worldwewant2015.org/education2015.

Here are some questions that will be under scrutiny:

• Policies, interventions and measures that can be or have been successful to improve governance of education.
• Major obstacles and challenges in financing education, and what has been done or could be done to overcome them.
• Recommendations to various actors to address and improve governance and financing of education in the post MDG framework.

Spread the word using #Education2015 and follow the discussion on Twitter.

What happens next?

The consultation will help review progress on the Education for All (EFA) goals and the MDGs and discuss how to ensure that education is effectively addressed and has a central place in a new development framework after 2015.

The results of e-discussions will be presented at the Education Leadership Meeting in Dakar, Senegal

in February 2013. A final summary report will then feed into the High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, as well as to the inter-governmental debate on the post-2015 development agenda at the 2013 United Nations General Assembly.