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Aid & Donors
Increasing aid and
Improving governance………
When the world set its goals for education in 2000, developing countries pledged to strengthen national education planning, tackle inequalities and enhance accountability. Rich countries pledged to ensure that no credible national plan would be allowed to fail for want of finance increased and more effective aid is vital to achieving the EFA goals. Are donors delivering on their promise?
The Report reviews the most recent data on aid to education and basic education, and it examines initiatives by donors and countries to improve the way aid is delivered.
Aid for education
Total aid flows: donors are not delivering on their commitments
International aid plays a crucial role in supporting policies that have helped increase access, enhance equity and improve education quality. Without aid, many more children would either be out of school or sitting in even more over crowded classrooms, without books or desks.
Though aid is vital in many countries to help meet the EFA goals and the wider MDGs, global trends in aid are serious cause for concern. Most donors are falling short of their own commitments to increase official development assistance ODA and need to make unprecedented increases to meet the targets they set themselves for 2010.
Source: EFA Global Monitoring Report 2009
Donor performance, a mixed record
Not enough donors are making the EFA goals a high priority, either through their own programmes or by support to the fast track initiative FTI catalytic fund. While aid to basic education did grow between 2005 and 2006, this was more the result of action by a very few donors rather than a based effort by the international community.
Though a majority of bilateral donors increased their overall aid to education in 2006, only seven out of twenty-one significantly increased aid for basic education. Large increases from a few donors were insufficient to counteract the significant fall in 2005. The concentration of aid to basic education among just a few donors poses serious questions about the commitment of donors.
Aligning aid to education sector plans and national management systems can yield positive results. Donor countries must increase aid to basic education, especially in low income countries.
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