The fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 4) is an opportunity the world cannot afford to miss. 75 million children are denied their right to a high-quality education due to crises and a total of 250 million children are not learning basic skills in numeracy and literacy. Achieving inclusive and quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all by 2030 will require all hands on deck.Education financing is of the utmost importance – for all efforts will fall short without the mobilization of resources and adequate levels of funding. As IIEP’s Mariela Buonomo writes in this issue, the attainment of SDG 4 “will require a renewed commitment from governments, smart resource allocation, defined priorities and improved data on what is being spent and how”.
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IN THIS ISSUE...
EDITORIAL
Planning for Education 2030
By Suzanne Grant Lewis, IIEP Director
New goals, same challenges?
By Mariela Buonomo Zabaleta, Programme Specialist, IIEP
SDGs: an ambitious vision for education
By Jordan Naidoo, Director, Education for All and International Education Coordination, UNESCO
Lao PDR lifts the fog on education financing
By Ousmane Diouf, Programme Specialist, IIEP
BREAKING BARRIERS IN EDUCATION
School grants in Madagascar
Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys - Lessons from experience
By Muriel Poisson, Programme Specialist IIEP
FROM THE DESK OF A PLANNER
Interview with David Woods Baysah from the Ministry of Education in Liberia
Trade-offs in education planning
By Jonathan Jourde, Communications Officer, IIEP Pôle de Dakar
Unearthing the impact of decentralization in education
By Marcelo Souto Simão, Programme Specialist, IIEP-Buenos Aires, and Mariela Buonomo Zabaleta, Programme Specialist, IIEP
The complexity of education funding: an opportunity for reform?
By Sylvia Montoya, Director, UNESCO Institute for Statistics
HIGHLIGHTS
Bridging the funding gap
By Michaela Martin, Programme Specialist, IIEP
TRAINING PROGRAMMES
In their words: experiences from the IIEP MOOC
By Mioko Saito, Programme Specialist, and Jimena Pereyra, Training Specialist, IIEP
IIEP PUBLICATIONS
A talk with the author Keith M. Lewin
