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ACHIEVING
EDUCATION FOR ALL (EFA) THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS AND LINKAGES
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A
presentation by the World Bank and UNDP
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at the first EFA Working Group, Paris, November 22-24, 2000
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Document
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| SIX
EFA GOALS |
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Expanding
and improving comprehensive early childhood care and education,
especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged of
children
Ensuring
that all children with special emphasis on girls - including
the poorest, working children and children with special
needs - complete a good quality primary education by 2015
Ensuring
that the learning needs of all young people are met through
equitable access to learning and life skills programs
Providing
equitable access to basic and continuing education programs
for adults and achieving at least a 50% reduction in current
gender disparities within a decade
Eliminating
gender disparities in primary and secondary education by
2005, as a milestone towards achieving gender equality in
education programs, institutions and systems by 2015
Improving
all aspects of the quality of education so that recognized
and measurable outcomes are achieved, especially in literacy,
numeracy and essential life skills
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| EFA
KEY LESSONS FROM THE 90’s |
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political
commitment is critical
quality
is as important as quantity
governments
can’t deliver alone -
you
need partnerships you need a sector policy framework
resource
inefficiencies constrain progress
education
needs to adapt to change
you
need to cushion education in crises
you
need a growing economy
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| FRAMEWORK
FOR ACTION (DAKAR) |
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| “ the international
community will deliver on this collective commitment by launching
with immediate effect a global initiative aimed at developing
the strategies and mobilizing the resources needed to provide
effective support to national effort”. |
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Options
to realize this include :
increasing
external finance for education
ensuring
greater predictability in the flow of external finance
facilitating
more effective donor coordination
strengthening
sector wide approaches
providing
earlier, more extensive and broader debt relief and/or debt
cancellation
undertaking
more effective and regular monitoring of progress towards
EFA goals and targets
plus
giving priority to SSA, South Asia and LDCs
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| FRAMEWORK
FOR ACTION (para 10) |
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| “we affirm
that no countries seriously committed to education for all will
be thwarted in their achievement of this goal by lack of resources”
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| EXISTING
INITIATIVES |
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Poverty
Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) (73 IDA countries)
Highly
Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative (40 countries)
Comprehensive
Development Framework (CDF - 12 Pilot countries
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PRSP
Decision Tree for the Education Toolkit (not available)
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| COUNTRY
COMMITMENT TO EFA WOULD BE SHOWN BY : |
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a national
EFA plan or its equivalent
appropriate
deployment of debt relief
satisfactory
budget allocations
efforts
to use resources efficiently
efforts
to reach the underserved
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| Partnerships:
A World of Opportunities ... public / private investment |
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| SUPPORT
TO COUNTRIES COULD INVOLVE |
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developing
cross sectoral policy frameworks
developing
communication strategies
sharing
‘good’ practice
brokering
financial deals
improving
resource utilisation
targeting
on key interventions and critical regions
building
capacity for institutional assessment
supporting
appropriate use of debt relief
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| WE NEED
TO |
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reach agreement on : |
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a set
of principles within which the global initiative will operate
the
criteria by which countries can join the initiative
what
constitutes a ‘national plan’
how
to quickly mobilize extra financial resources and support
once countries have a viable plan
how
to put in place an objective, comparative evaluation and
monitoring system so that regular, transparent reporting
on progress, and subsequent policy dialogue and action,
can take place.
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Thank
You
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