Four themes at the Oslo Summit on Education for Development
At the Oslo Summit, world leaders will focus on the four themes of financing education, educating girls, quality of learning, and education in emergencies and crises.
July 03, 2015 by GPE Secretariat
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Four themes of Oslo. Credit clockwise: GPE/Scoppa, Educate a Child, GPE, GPE/Bachenheimer

Next week in Norway, world leaders will gather to talk about the unfinished education agenda: few developing countries have achieved the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary schooling.

Even if millions more children are in school now than in 2000 when the MDGs were adopted, up to 250 million children still don't make it to Grade 4 or haven’t learned the basics of reading and simple math by the time they reach grade 4.

Oslo will focus on the four themes of financing education, educating girls, quality of learning, and education in emergencies and crises.

The Oslo summit will pave the way for the following week’s 3rd international Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

See the Oslo Summit program

Education in crisis situations, Financing, Gender equality, Learning

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July 03, 2015 by Elizabeth Enaka Ako

Girl's Education amongst other themes for the Oslo Summit is most welcomed. I cannot imagine nations to move forward and leaving behind the large majority of their populations: girls. Thank you for having a global look at this issue.
But what l fear most is the non application of resolutions at the end of the summit. Can we expect a realistic approach and action to benefit rural and poor populations like those living in my village? How much impact will this create and what are the measures of monitoring.
Thank you and Kudos. It is wonderful to be part of a good idea. After all "l am my brother's keeper"

July 03, 2015 by Elizabeth Enaka Ako

Girl's Education amongst other themes for the Oslo Summit is most welcomed. I cannot imagine nations to move forward and leaving behind the large majority of their populations: girls. Thank you for having a global look at this issue.
But what l fear most is the non application of resolutions at the end of the summit. Can we expect a realistic approach and action to benefit rural and poor populations like those living in my village? How much impact will this create and what are the measures of monitoring.
Thank you and Kudos. It is wonderful to be part of a good idea. After all "l am my brother's keeper"

July 23, 2015 by Irene

I commend the Oslo gathering on Girls Education. But one area that we are all forgetting is that governments in developing countries are unable to cope with the rising numbers of children in need of schooling;facilities are not expanding to accommodate the numbers, teachers are not enough, hunger and civil issues mitigate school attendance, disabled are not encouraged due to barriers and societal negative attitudes. As a result, many non profit and private institutions have come up to take on such challenges but the respective governments are charging them heavily for this endeavours. Disabled children we are told are public but institutions are private yet when it comes to distribution of government fundings/free access,they are termed as private for being in private institutions. Any country that divides her vulnerable dependants in this manner is doomed.
I hope in the forthcoming summit in Ethiopia such issues will be a priority.

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