When it comes to educating the world’s most vulnerable children — and girls especially — the international community has collectively failed.
Visionary billionaires, global business, aid organizations, donor governments, you name it, we have let down kids in poor and war-torn countries.
There are 124 million children today, the majority of them girls, who find themselves deprived of primary and lower secondary schooling — a number that has soared because of the surge in violent conflicts currently fueling Europe’s refugee crisis.
So far, however, there is no Bill or Melinda Gates for international education.
Incredibly, financing for basic learning is falling.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. There is a proven approach that has already worked. Philanthropists, private foundations and development institutions, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union have banded together over the past 10 years to dramatically improve the health of the poorest children.
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Results-Based Financing in Education: It's Time for Donors to Step Up for International Education
By Alice P. Albright
Global Partnership for Education
When it comes to educating the world’s most vulnerable children — and girls especially — the international community has collectively failed.
Visionary billionaires, global business, aid organizations, donor governments, you name it, we have let down kids in poor and war-torn countries.
There are 124 million children today, the majority of them girls, who find themselves deprived of primary and lower secondary schooling — a number that has soared because of the surge in violent conflicts currently fueling Europe’s refugee crisis.
So far, however, there is no Bill or Melinda Gates for international education.
Incredibly, financing for basic learning is falling.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. There is a proven approach that has already worked. Philanthropists, private foundations and development institutions, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union have banded together over the past 10 years to dramatically improve the health of the poorest children.
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