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SC’s Focus on Education 9th CSO Forum in Dakar (Senegal), 2-4th April 2014. Vision, mission and values. OUR VISION is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.
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SC’s Focus on Education9th CSO Forum in Dakar (Senegal), 2-4th April 2014
Vision, mission and values OUR VISION is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. OUR MISSION is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. OUR VALUES ACCOUNTABILITY– AMBITION – COLLABORATION – CREATIVITY – INTEGRITY
Core areas for SC globally • Child rights governance • Child protection • Education • Health and nutrition • Livelihoods • Humanitarian
our vision in education Every child receives a good quality education and learns the skills and knowledge they need to thrive in the 21st century. This is the right of every child, irrespective of their gender, ethnicity, social class or income, or whether they live in conflict zones or fragile states.
SC’s breakthrough in education All children can read by the time they leave primary school; and Children caught up in humanitarian crises have access to quality education.
Strategic objectives in education • Basic Education • Education in Emergencies • Early Childhood Care and Development • Education for Youth Empowerment • Driving Global and National Policy Change
Education Global Initiative • Each of the SC’s areas of focus has a global initiative – for collaboration and synergy • The Education Global Initiative is a framework which enables members, regions and countries (and our partners) to come together to discuss and decide on what we want to achieve with our education programmes as well as how we are going to do it.
Links to the Forum theme • Education is a key right for children • Barriers to free, mandatory and adapted quality education persist – mainlylearning inequality • This right relates to other rights in a complex manner – survival, protection & participation • State parties need to ratify, report and implement the ACRWC and related education frameworks • Role of CSOs in working with state parties • The way we treat children reflects on us • Africa post-2015 - learning and equity
Our direction to 2030 Goal: By 2030 we will ensure children everywhere receive quality education and have good learning outcomes Targets • Ensure that girls and boys everywhere are achieving good learning outcomes by the age of 12 with gaps between the poorest and the richest significantly reduced. • Ensure that the poorest young children will be starting school ready to learn, with good levels of child development. • Ensure that young people everywhere have basic literacy and numeracy, technical and life skills to become active citizens with decent employment.