Education for All Where are we now?

1. Education for AllWhere are we now? Catherine Jere Launch of GMR 2013/4 Stockholm, 5th February 2014

2. EFA goals will not be reached by 2015 Goal 1:Early childhood care and education • 1 in 4 children under 5 suffer from stunting, because of malnutrition. • 50% of young children have access to pre-primary education, but only 17% in low income countries. • Goal 2: Universal primary education • 57 million childrenare out of school, half of whom live in conflict-affected countries. • In sub-Saharan Africa, only 23% of poor, rural girls complete primary education.

3. EFA goals will not be reached by 2015 Goal 3: Youth and adult skills • 69 million adolescents are out of school. • In low income countries, only 37% of adolescents complete lower secondary education, and only 14% of the poorest.

4. The number of adolescents out of school declined slowly 120 Out - of - Out-of-school children 107 100 Out-of-schooladolescents 101 - o - 81 80 73 Millions 69 57 60 40 31 South and West Asia 40 20 22 Sub-SaharanAfrica 22 0 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 Source: UIS database.

5. EFA goals will not be reached by 2015 Goal 4:Adult literacy • 774 million adults are illiterate, a decline of just 1% since 2000. • Almost two-thirds of illiterate adults are women. • Goal 5: Gender parity and equality There are fewer than 9 girls for every 10 boys: • in 17 countries at primary level • in 30 countries at secondary level.

6. Percentage of countries projected to reach a benchmark for five EFA goals by 2015 By 2015, many countries will still not have reached the EFA goals Source: Bruneforth (2013).

7. Globally, 250 million children are failing to learn the basics

8. Lack of trained teachers contributes to learning crisis In one out of three countries, less than three-quarters of teachers are trained to national standards 160 Pupil/trained teacher ratio 140 Pupil/teacher ratio 120 Pupils per teacher 100 80 60 40 20 0 Solomon Is. Chad Bangladesh Ethiopia Mozambique Sierra Leone Benin Equat. Guinea Guinea C. A. R. Senegal Ghana Guinea-Bissau Kyrgyzstan S.Tome/Principe Togo Nicaragua Comoros Cameroon Lesotho Nigeria Mali Liberia Sudan (pre-secession) Barbados Guyana Dominica Belize Qatar Source: UIS database.

9. Disadvantages interact to widen learning disparities Malawi, 2007 Percentage of primary school children who completed primary education and learned basics in reading

10. Aid to education decreased for the first time in 2011 16 14.4 14.4 13.4 14 12.5 12.3 11.4 12 Basic education 5.7 5.6 10.2 Secondary education 5.4 10 9.2 5.3 5.0 8.9 Post-secondary education 5.1 8 4.7 2.5 2.5 6.7 4.2 2.2 4.4 2.0 2.0 6 1.7 2.7 Constant 2011 US$ billions 1.3 1.4 4 1.2 1.1 6.2 6.2 5.8 5.2 5.1 4.6 4.2 2 3.6 3.3 3.0 0 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

11. Aid to basic education decreased for 19 low income countries in 2011 Bangladesh Afghanistan Mozambique Haiti Mali D. R. Congo. Tanzania Malawi Uganda Liberia Madagascar Somalia Sierra Leone Tajikistan Mauritania Chad Guinea-Bissau Comoros D. P. R. Korea. 0 25 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 225 250 275 300 Constant 2011 US$ millions 2010 2011

12. Filling the $26 billion financing gap for basic education Average annual resources needed to finance basic education (2012-2015)US $53 billion Donors: Meet 0.7% target 1.3 Remaining financing gap 3.4 Government: Increase tax base 7.3 Donors: Reallocate student imputed costs 2.4 Financing gap US $26 billion Donors: Prioritise basic education 4.0 Government: Prioritise basic education 7.5

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