Donors pledge more than US$1.5 billion to Global Partnership for Education; Executive Director Lake urges focus on most disadvantaged by Joan Howe

Copenhagen, 9 November 2011 – Leading donors at the first-ever Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Pledging Conference promised an initial US$1.5 billion over the next three years to put millions more children in school.
The multi-partner global partnership met on 7-8 November in Copenhagen, Denmark, where donors also pledged to increase bilateral funding to support education investment and achieve concrete results in access and quality of education. The pooled education fund aims to secure predictable funding to put 25 million more children in school over the next three years. Developing countries pledged to increase domestic funding for education by more than US$2 billion...

La apuesta de invertir para una mejor educación: Evaluando la Ley de Financiamiento Educativo en la Argentina, 2006-2010.

El Programa de Educación de CIPPEC elaboró un informe que evalúa la implementación y el cumplimiento de los objetivos de financiamiento y educativos establecidos por la Ley de Financiamiento Educativo (LFE) en la Argentina, en el período 2006-2010. El documento analiza el cumplimiento de la ley teniendo en cuenta las metas y los medios para alcanzarlas definidas en la legislación; los mecanismos existentes para apoyar la aplicación de la LFE; la forma en que se asignan los recursos entre las provincias y la difusión de información sobre la aplicación de la ley en las provincias argentinas.

New ways to invest in Education for All

UNICEF podcast moderator Amy Costello recently spoke with Kevin Watkins, Director of UNESCO's Education For All Global Monitoring Report (GMR), and Daniel Altman, President of North Yard Economics - a not-for-profit consulting firm serving governments and NGOs in developing countries - about the importance of finding new ways to invest in education for all. This podcast was produced to coincide with last weeks' Global Action Week for Education, which focused on financing.