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Global conference to address challenges in providing quality education
Global leaders are expected to make stronger financial commitments and take action to address the challenges in bringing quality education to more children in poor countries in an international conference this week
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lobal leaders are expected to make stronger financial commitments and take action to address the challenges in bringing quality education to more children in poor countries in an international conference this week.
More than 600 world leading experts and policymakers on global education and development, including more than 40 government ministers from across the world, will share ideas, innovations, and strategies to bring quality education to all children in the Global Partnership for Education's Second Replenishment Pledging Conference in Brussels on June 25 and 26.
'If there is ever a time for all of us to act, to boost the momentum and urgency for providing education for millions of children, now is the time,' former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who is now the board chair of the Global Partnership for Education, in a release made available to The Jakarta Post on Monday.
'This conference is the moment to make education history. We simply cannot afford to falter. Too many children from around the world are expecting so much more of us,' she added.
The conference is the beginning of a four-year replenishment period, from 2015 to 2018, for the Global Partnership for Education.
Donor nations, developing countries and other major global development actors are expected to announce funding for global education in some of the poorest countries.
The conference will offer more than 20 forums where participants will discuss challenges and opportunities for global education, including prospects and strategies for progress under the post-Millenium Development Goals agenda.
The conference will also feature a Youth Zone, where Malala Yousafzai, with other young education advocates from around the world, will share their own perspectives on global education.
Malala was recently appointed an education advocate for the Global Partnership and the replenishment conference, speaking up for the rights of children, especially girls, to an education. (ebf)
