Global Education Aid Declining

07/23/2009

Global Education Aid Declining

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

World Forum Alliance Member UNESCO recently released the 2009 Global Monitoring Report and its message was alarming. Aid for basic education in developing countries declined from $5.5 billion in 2006 to $4.3 billion in 2007, a fall off of nearly 22%. And with the impact of the current global monetary crisis, the chances of this trend reversing are bleak.

The consequences for developing nations are significant. In 2000 developing and developed nations met in Dakar and set a target that all children of the world would have access to primary education by 2015. Now this goal seems in jeopardy. According to the 2009 Report:

"Seventeen of 24 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, 13 of 18 countries in Europe and Central Asia, and 12 of 14 countries in East Asia and the Pacific (for which data exist) have already met or are on track to meet the target. Other regions have shown little progress; 3 of 5 countries in South Asia and 33 of 36 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are not on track. Fragile states also lag behind — only 3 of 22 countries with available data have achieved the target."

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