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How to accelerate learning? This question is at the heart of a major challenge confronting national governments and development agencies, as investment priorities shift from creating facilities to improving gains in learning. There is now abundant evidence showing that, given an opportunity, all children can learn. What is needed now is to shift the focus of debate from equity in access, to equity in learning outcomes.
Ensuring learning for all requires systemic interventions, rather than a focus on various components. This calls for reforms that strengthen education systems and going beyond input orientation in investment to teaching learning processes, reinforcing accountability measures, and improving governance and management of institutions.
A meeting hosted by the World Bank
On 13–14 June 2012, these issues were addressed by some 65 representatives of agencies and foundations supporting education efforts in the developing countries, researchers and experts from universities, and professional organizations at the 2012 meeting of the International Working Group on Education (IWGE), in Washington DC.
The IWGE meeting provided an important forum for agencies and foundations engaged in, and funding, education to exchange views, discuss issues in depth, develop a common understanding, and consider intervention strategies to maximize learning outcomes.
