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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India faced big cuts in aid for basic education -Manash Pratim Gohain

India faced big cuts in aid for basic education -Manash Pratim Gohain

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published Published on Jun 15, 2014   modified Modified on Jun 15, 2014
-The Times of India
 

NEW DELHI: Despite being among the top five countries with most children out of school, India experienced the largest cuts in aid to basic education.

Its aid to the sector fell by $278 million between 2010-12. While global aid to education is seriously declining: it fell by just over 6% between 2010 and 2011, and a further 3% in 2012, for India it fell by 10% in this period.

These new figures are released by Unesco's Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report ahead of the Global Partnership for Education's Replenishment Pledging Conference in Brussels on June 25-26, 2014.

Basic education - which enables children to acquire foundational skills and core knowledge - is now receiving the same amount of aid as it was in 2008. As funds diminish, and just one year before the deadline for achieving the global EFA goals, 57 million children and 69 million adolescents are still out of school.

These new figures are released by the Unesco report just ahead of the Brussels conference at which donors are being asked to help raise a much-needed US$3.5 billion for education in the poorest countries.

"When so many girls and boys are still out of school and not learning, the continuing drop in funds for education is cause for serious concern," said Irina Bokova, director-general of Unesco, "Increasing external support for education is an ethical and development imperative. We know the difference that well-targeted aid can make in helping countries to put quality education first."

Julia Gillard, board chair of the Global Partnership for Education, said: "Education is a long-term investment - not an expense. We owe it to the children of the world - particularly the poorest and most marginalized - that both international donors and developing country governments step up and commit more funding to education."

The paper shows that aid is still vital for many countries, making up over a quarter of public education spending in 12 countries. Yet with aid flows to the sector falling by 10% - far more than the 1% decrease in overall aid levels - donors are clearly backing away from education as a development priority.

The two countries with the largest cuts in aid to basic education from 2010 to 2012 were India and Pakistan, even though both sit among the top five countries in the world with the most children out of school. Cuts to these countries resulted in South and West Asia being the region with the largest decline in aid to basic education, with disbursements falling by 26% between 2010 and 2012.

"This worrying fall in aid is in the context of a US$26 billion annual finance gap for education. Unless this negative trend is reversed, the likelihood of reaching the global education goals is put at great risk - all the more so if new education targets are set for 2030," said Aaron Benavot, director of the EFA Global Monitoring Report.


The Times of India, 15 June, 2014, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/India-faced-big-cuts-in-aid-for-basic-education/articleshow/36572984.cms


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