Global Action Week For Education 2021 (26 to 30 APRIL)

Global Action Week For Education 2021 (unesco.org)

Each day of GAWE 2021, led by a member of UNESCO's Collective Consultation of NGOs on Education 2030 (CCNGO-Ed2030) Coordination Group, will be a regional policy dialogue on education financing.

• Monday, April 26: Asia and the Pacific – ASPBAE - Regional policy dialogue - watch
• Tuesday, April 27: Arab States – ACEA - Regional policy dialogue with a focus on Arab coalition debt campaign
• Wednesday, April 28: Latin America and the Caribbean – CLADE - Regional policy dialogue with a focus on privatization
• Thursday, April 29: Africa – ANCEFA - Launch of Africa domestic financing report
• Friday, April 30: Global culmination day - High-level global policy dialogue on mobilising education financing - register

Related links: 

• More about Global Action Week for Education 2021 #GAWE2021 #Education2030NGOs

• Global Education Monitoring Report Policy Papers:

  • How Committed? Unlocking financing for equity in education  

  • COVID-19 is a serious threat to aid to education recovery

  • Act now: reduce the impact of COVID-19 on the cost of achieving SDG 4

• Global Education Meeting 2020 Declaration 
  

  The endorsed Declaration defines priority actions that are essential for educational recovery in 2021. These priority actions requiring that education budgets be at least protected, if not increased. In the Declaration, governments and partners stated their commitment to:

  • Maintain or increase the share of public spending on education to at least 4-6% of GDP and/or 15-20% of public expenditure;
  • Ensure that stimulus packages support measures that will mitigate learning losses and get the most vulnerable back to school;
  • Increase the volume, predictability and effectiveness of international aid, and 
  • target aid to countries and populations most in need including those who are not reached by government programmes. 
     
• More about the global mechanisms for SDG4 - Education 2030