Online Resources

Check out these resources for more information on universal education

• A Report on the Right to Education During Displacement
  The Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children has developed this resource on education rights during times of displacement.
• Basic Education and Gender Equality: Quality of Education
  UNICEF has prepared an brief report on five elements that affect the quality of education as it pertains to gender.
• Cancelling the Caps: Why the EFA movement must confront wage bill caps now
  This document by ActionAid! provides the IMF rationale for wage caps and assesses their impact on achieving EFA.
• Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2007
  The EFA Global Monitoring Report assesses where the world stands on its commitment to provide a basic education to all children, youth and adults by 2015. This link will allow you to download the full 2007 Report or view the document by chapter.
• Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2007 | Summary
  This is a Summary of the 2007 EFA Global Monitoring Report. The report focuses on early childhood care and education.
• Education Notes: Education for All: Including Children with Disabilities
  This report from the World Bank highlights the challenge of educational access and quality for children with disabilities.
• Failing Our Children: Barriers to the Right to Education
  This Human Rights Watch report assesses the common barriers to the right to education. This link allows you to see the table of contents and view the report by chapter.
• From the Ground Up: Education and Livelihoods in Southern Sudan
  This is a report based on findings from a November 2006 assessment where the Women’s Commission looked at education and livelihood projects and opportunities for Southern Sudanese who are returning after decades of displacement.
• Keep the G8 Promise to Africa, The DATA Report 2006: Education
  The DATA report explains the G8 promise to Africa regarding primary education, interprets the promise and provides an assessment on the status of the G8 committment.
• Kenya’s Abolition of School Fees offers Lessons for Rest of Africa
  This UNICEF article explains the surge in enrollments, progress, remaining challenges and lessons learned from the Kenyan experience of abolishing school fees.
• Lessons Learned: African Countries Share Experiences with Abolition of School Fees
  This article explores various African experiences with the abolition of school fees.
• Missing the Mark, A School Report on Rich Countries’ Contribution to Universal Primary Education
  This Global Campaign for Education report summarizes the contributions made by rich countries to achieving Universal Primary Education.
• Oxfam Briefing Paper 93: Free, Quality Education for Every Afghan Child
  This briefing paper analyzes the scale of the challenge facing education in Afghanistan, and the budgetary implications of that challenge.
• Rewrite the future: education for children in conflict-affected countries
  This report from Save the Children examines the impact of conflict on the education of children and makes recommendations for how to meet this challenge.
• The State of the World's Children 2007: Women and Children - The double dividend of gender equality
  The UNICEF State of the World's Children 2007 report focuses on the relationship between women's empowerment and the well-being of children.
• The UN Millennium Development Goals Indicators
  The MDG Indicator website presents the official data, definitions, methodologies and sources for the 48 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.
• The United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative
  The United Nations Girls' Education Initiative is the Education For All flagship for girls' education and principal movement to narrow the gender gap in primary and secondary education.
• UNICEF Child Labour Report
  The UNICEF child labor report provides an overview about child labor and some basic statistics.
• What Works in Girls Education: Evidence and Policies from the Developing World
  This report by the Council on Foreign Relations summarizes the extensive body of research on the state of girls’ education in the developing world today; the impact of educating girls on families, economies, and nations; and the most promising approaches to increasing girls’enrollment and educational quality.

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