08 Feb 2017
The Education Commission Report: Will We Achieve EFA and the Education SDG? By Steven J. Klees
By Steven J. Klees, University of Maryland[1] The International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity, aka the Education Commission, recently engaged in... Read More
10 Oct 2016
Innovative Financing for Education: Interesting Ideas or Actionable in Education 2030? By Saba Saeed
By Saba Saeed, Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), Pakistan. Despite the fact that education has been slow to embrace innovations compared to the other sectors,... Read More
16 Sep 2016
Making the “Learning Generation” a Reality: Let’s Act on the Education Commission Report by Baela Raza Jamil
By Baela Raza Jamil, Commissioner for the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity (The Education Commission) Gulalai Ahmadzai, just short of... Read More
18 May 2016
The Education Cannot Wait Fund: Imperfect, but a Great Start in an Imperfect World By Robert Palmer
By Robert Palmer, University of Nottingham and NORRAG. The Education Cannot Wait Fund is a positive step in the right direction, but... Read More
13 Nov 2015
The Need for an SDG Demonstration in Education: Why Wait Till 2030? By Steven J. Klees
By Steven J. Klees, University of Maryland. The recently approved United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for education, like all the SDGs,... Read More
05 Nov 2015
Without a Proper Financing Plan, Let’s Kiss the Education SDG Good Bye By Charles Aheto-Tsegah
By Charles Aheto-Tsegah, National Council for /Curriculum and Assessment, Ghana. Special gratitude to Burnett and Upadhyay for drawing attention to the essential... Read More
08 Oct 2015
A Roadmap to Better Data on Education Financing By Silvia Montoya
By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), and Elise Legault, Programme Specialist at UIS. Leaders have pledged to provide... Read More
29 Sep 2015
Time to Think Outside the Box: Buy-Downs as an Education Financing Option by Arjun Upadhyay and Nicholas Burnett
Late last week, world leaders met to adopt ambitious new sustainable development goals (SDGs) that will shape international development for the next... Read More
28 Nov 2013
Building Basic Human Capital in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by 2030: A Huge but Feasible Funding Challenge
By Birger Fredriksen, Consultant, formerly World Bank. To build the basic human capital covered by the six EFA goals is an indispensable... Read More
14 Oct 2013
Funding Global Public Goods in the Education Sector: A Growing Challenge
By Raymond Wanner and Birger Fredriksen, Members of IIEP’s Governing Board. The importance of the issues dealt with by this year’s United... Read More