Blog: The challenge of Target 4.7 in fragile and low-resource contexts Margaret Sinclair & Jean Bernard, Global Education Monitoring Report “Given current challenges of conflict, insecurity and environmental collapse, we must put maximum effort into Sustainable Development Goal Target 4.7: education to promote responsible and global citizenship, a culture of peace, gender equality, human rights, respectContinue reading “The challenge…of Target 4.7”
Monthly Archives: March 2017
Global Education -unfinished business?
By Nicholas Burnett, senior fellow, Results for Development Global education is not in good shape. There is too much unfinished business. I draw attention to four such areas, making no attempt to be comprehensive but rather focusing on topics of personal importance to me: Sterile debates continue to dominate. Our field remains excessively concerned […] viaContinue reading “Global Education -unfinished business?”
International Women’s Day (2)
It has been stated that “130 million girls didn’t go to school today – not because they didn’t want to, but because they weren’t given the chance. What are the benefits of providing education for girls? Educate a girl in one of the world’s poorest countries, and it boosts her health, wealth, and ability to takeContinue reading “International Women’s Day (2)”
International Women’s Day
Being bold for change? On this day we reflect on what has been achieved since the last International Womens Day. Of course it is a mixed bag – situations where girls are still being abused physically and psychologically, just for being a girl at school and others where some movement is being made at aContinue reading “International Women’s Day”