Global Campaign for Education
The Global Campaign for Education promotes education as a basic human right, and mobilises public pressure on governments and the international community to fulfill their promises to provide free, compulsory public basic education for all people; in particular for children, women and all marginalised sections of society.
We believe education is:
- A universal human right
- Vital for poverty alleviation and sustainable human development
- A core responsibility of the state
- Achievable if governments mobilise the political will and available resources.
Together we are calling for:
- Governments to involve citizens' groups, teachers and communities in developing concrete plans of action for delivering and sustaining free, good quality public education for all
- Governments to abolish fees and charges for public primary education, and to increase their own spending on adult, early childhood, primary and basic education, with priority investments in schools and teachers serving the most disadvantaged groups
- Rich countries and multilateral institutions (such as the European Union and World Bank) to increase aid and debt relief for basic education, and fund the Global Partnership for Education to back national plans in line with aid effectiveness principles
- Civil society organisations to hold their own governments and international institutions accountable for upholding the right to education, and delivering on the Education for All goals.
GCE have produced a report which calls for urgent increases in aid to funding education, and sets about a 10 point plan to funding a quality education for all children. You can read this report by clicking the ink below
What do you think?