EFA: Now and Post-2015

E9 Senior Official Meeting

New Delhi8 November, 2012

Olav Seim,

Director, EFA Global Partnerships Team,UNESCO

EFA 2012: Mixed picture, some successes but…..

GMR 2012

•Progress towards Education for All is stagnating

•Aid to education is slowing down

•Slow progress has left a huge skills deficit among young

•Poor urban and rural youth, especially women, urgently need support to acquire skills.

•A « lost geneation » 250 million leaving school without basic foundation skills

Post 2015 Development Agenda (MDGs)Important to make education visible and relevant in

the post 2015 agenda•UN Inter Agency Task Team •UN High Level Panel of Eminent Persons / Indonesia co-chair - 2013 UN General Assembly•Special Advisor on Post 2015 to the SG - Amina Mohammed (Nigeria)•Country Consultations: 50 + 50 (UNDP)•Eleven thematic consultations•UNESCO-UNICEF co-lead Global thematic consultation on education in the post-2015 development agenda, October 2012-Mars 2013

4

• Jomtien, 1990• Dakar, 2000• Generate a broad-based critical debate on

the evolution of national education and training sectors since 2000

• Identify priority areas for the transformation of national education systems

Background

5

• Countries review their progress against commitments made to

> Inform and mobilize for the “Big push”

> Prepare for 2015

> Lay foundations for post-2015

Rationale

6

• Assess progress towards the six EFA goals

• Review the twelve strategies for achieving the goals

• Determine the relevance of the EFA framework as a global education agenda

Objectives

7

• a clear awareness about where countries stand > focus on quality, equity and sustainability

• a shared vision on the way forward

• renewed commitment to education as fundamental to national development and social transformation

> setting the future/post-2015 national education agenda

Objective

8

• Guiding Principles: participatory and inclusive, constructive, forward-looking

• Timeframe: 2013- mid-2014

• Implementation framework – mechanisms -guidelines

• National stakeholder consultations on progress

• National dialogues on the findings to design the future national education agenda

Review Modalities

9

• Lead Coordinator: develop framework for the national EFA2015 Reviews and mobilize all partners to support the process

• Advocacy role: mobilize political commitment and seed funding

• Technical guidance• Set standards for the methodologies and quality

of results;• Build and strengthen national capacities • Promote inter-country sharing and learning from

each other;• Ensure that national reviews feed into regional

and global processes, including the Post-2015 agenda debates

Role of UNESCO

10

• Foster agreement on the scope and shape of reviews• Develop guidelines for implementation• Support setting up of national and regional

implementation mechanisms• Develop guidelines for preparation of national reports• Mobilise support of other international EFA partners,

including seed funding• Develop communication strategy • Plan and align national activities to relevant

regional/global events

Next steps?

Changing context 2000 - 2012

• Civil society a critical factor• Many countries progress in political participation and

national decision making• Role of parliaments• Social networks – connectivity Challenge: • Balance provide direction/not too prescriptive• Balance global/national dimensions• Support to countries to make assessments

TRENDS• Focus on the national level – from community

to the central• The political economy – institutional

bottlenecks• National resource mobilization, redistribution,

natural resource management• Inequality in education is a universal trend.

The relationship donors- recipient less clear• Capital - Knowledge generation, management,

distribution, innovation