Financing the 2030 Education Agenda – Key issues and challenges for national planners

14 January 2016

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Financing the 2030 Education Agenda – Key issues and challenges for national planners


The Education 2030 agenda adopted in 2015 provides a new international vision for education. Its main objective is to “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all”. How can countries best plan for the implementation of this ambitious and comprehensive education vision? This question will be the focus of the 2016 IIEP Strategic Debate series.

Speaker: Aaron Benavot, Director, Global Education Monitoring Report, UNESCO
Discussant: Paul Coustère, Deputy Director, IIEP
Moderator: Michaela Martin, Programme Specialist, IIEP

Inadequate resource mobilization during the past 15 years was a major reason why the EFA targets were not reached in many low- and middle- income countries. UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring Report estimates that in such countries the total annual financing gap between available domestic resources and the amout needed to reach most of the Education 2030 targets will be $39 billion. For low-income countries, in particular, the gap constitutes more than 40% of total yearly costs. Sustained resource mobilization will thus be a major issue in the years to come, but the allocation and management of available resources at the national level will also require substantial attention by planners. They will need to address difficult issues of efficiency, equity and management of public resources.

Friday, 22 January 2016
4 p.m. to 6 p.m. IIEP Room II – 2nd floor
Contact: m.martin@iiep.unesco.org / 01 45 03 77 52
The seminar will be held in English with simultaneous interpretation into French.

 

IIEP, 7-9 rue Eugène Delacroix, 75116 Paris. Metro: Rue de la Pompe, line 9.