Education aid falls globally for 6th straight year: Report

The amount of aid allocated to education globally has been falling for six years in a row, shows a new Unesco policy paper, reports UNB. The policy paper - Aid to Education is Stagnating and Not Going to Countries Most in Need, is published by Unesco's Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report.
Total aid to education stands at US$ 12 billion - 4 per cent lower than in 2010 - while total development aid over the same period increased by 24 per cent, according to a message received here from Unesco.
Aid to basic education - which includes support to pre-primary and primary education as well as adult education and literacy programmes - stands at US$5.2 billion, up from US$ 4.8 billion in 2014.
This amount is still 6 per cent lower than in 2010. Aid to secondary education, meanwhile, amounts to US$2.2 billion, representing 19 per cent of total aid to education.
The analysis is based on newly released data from the OECD Development Assistance Committee. “Aid remains far short of what is needed to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4, putting our commitments at risk,” said Irina Bokova, Director-General of Unesco.
The paper provides country-specific examples of donors' biased resource allocation. It demonstrates that aid is not allocated according to out of school rates so as to meet the cost of achieving universal education in each country concerned. While humanitarian aid to education has reached a historic high, increasing by 55 per cent from 2015 to 2016, it still receives only 2.7 percent of total aid available, amounting to 48 per cent of the amount requested.

Education aid falls globally for 6th straight year: Report

The amount of aid allocated to education globally has been falling for six years in a row, shows a new Unesco policy paper, reports UNB. The policy paper - Aid to Education is Stagnating and Not Going to Countries Most in Need, is published by Unescos Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report. Total aid to education stands at US$ 12 billion - 4 per cent lower than in 2010 - while total development aid over the same period increased by 24 per cent, according to a message received here from Unesco. Aid to basic education - which includes support to pre-primary and primary education as well as adult education and literacy programmes - stands at US$5.2 billion, up from US$ 4.8 billion in 2014. This amount is still 6 per cent lower than in 2010. Aid to secondary education, meanwhile, amounts to US$2.2 billion, representing 19 per cent of total aid to education. The analysis is based on newly released data from the OECD Development Assistance Committee. Aid remains far short of what is needed to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4, putting our commitments at risk, said Irina Bokova, Director-General of Unesco. The paper provides country-specific examples of donors biased resource allocation. It demonstrates that aid is not allocated according to out of school rates so as to meet the cost of achieving universal education in each country concerned. While humanitarian aid to education has reached a historic high, increasing by 55 per cent from 2015 to 2016, it still receives only 2.7 percent of total aid available, amounting to 48 per cent of the amount requested.