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A Global Fund for Education

Posted: 01/26/2012 9:02 am

The world is currently at risk of falling woefully short of the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015. If we are to avoid this fate, a game-changing reform is needed. I believe that a Global Fund for Education is that game-changing initiative.

As you'll see in the report below, I propose that World Bank's Global Partnership for Education (formerly, the Fast Track Initiative) should be converted into an independent Global Fund for Education (GFE) that draws on the experience of the global funds in health, and that serves as a focal point for a renewed drive toward getting another 68 million children into school by 2015. The GFE would engage the business sector, and have the flexibility to make grants to NGOs and private companies, as well as national governments and multinational agencies.

It is time for governments around the world to take urgent action on behalf of the millions of children in need of a decent primary education. A Global Fund for Education would be a bold step in the right direction.


 
The world is currently at risk of falling woefully short of the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015. If we are to avoid this fate, a game-changing reform is needed. I be...
The world is currently at risk of falling woefully short of the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015. If we are to avoid this fate, a game-changing reform is needed. I be...
 
 
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09:05 AM on 01/31/2012
A marvelous idea, initiative and decent indulgence!
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robidomoore
devils advocate
01:14 PM on 01/29/2012
the problem with liberalism or socialism is that it creates a dependency that then becomes an entitlement...and when that entitlement is not met by the entitled in their minds social unrest and moral decline increase as stated in an article in a prominent US paper. Entitlements are less for the people as they are more for the politician to draw a base for future elections and personal gain....and what would we have them study since needs for each improvished nations all differ and does not more bureaucracy create more dependence with budgets already bursting at the seems..and when will we learn that giving money will not make anyone like us more but depend on us to finally solve all their current and future problems which is an oxymoron in itself...and finally most kids do not attend school because they are created to support the family and to not get educations... in many developing countries including the states in their history children were used for a second income to support the family. Nations must first realize the need for education as the west did but until economics for the family unit improves let alone a countries- education will always take a back seat...that is why see so many children are sold or used as child labor in poor countries
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NoPartyCharlie
08:11 PM on 01/29/2012
Also another problem is the bankers such as the central bankers, make money off of a big welfare state, because of the cents they borrow on the dollar for the currency issued to the public. This sounds like another scam from a horrible prime minister that calls for corporate governance all day long.
12:12 PM on 01/29/2012
Gordon - get with some of your friends and take out your checkbooks. Don't go reaching for my checkbook to pay for millions of bureaucrats to mismange and steal the money. Get real!
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NoPartyCharlie
08:13 PM on 01/29/2012
Hehehehe I love your post. Refreshing. Wish you were a leader!
04:09 AM on 01/29/2012
Education as it is is not working in this country. There are bloated Administrations, huge overcharges in school construction and renovations/maintenance, with growing reports of thievery and kickbacks, while teachers and students alike are burned. It is time to get rid of the administrations, put them on the blue-collar manufacturing lines, and those who are on the take put where they belong - and it's not in schools. Education costs too much because there is no accountability. One room schoolhouses without oversight produced a much better trained public than the educational system since at least the 1960's. Time to get back to the basics here, get rid of everyone living off education and into productive manufacturing, farming and etc. jobs. I ought to know. I worked at the University of California, and caught a whole bunch of them on the take and putting out illegally sole-sourced contracts...and discovered that the California State Auditor is not allowed to audit the Dept. of Education (K-12), which is 40% of the State Budget...and more than that in colleges and Universities, not allowed to investigate without permission of the politicians in the Legislature, considered criminal in other states....got that? Little wonder California has lost its' way - too many people with their hand in the till, and no way to stop it. It can only worsen. The idea of controlling education globally makes many the hundreds of thousands who are aware of these issues very ill.
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NoPartyCharlie
08:13 PM on 01/29/2012
Yes yes and yes!!!! Good post!
10:19 PM on 01/29/2012
Thank you Charlie. I have hard evidence of what I say. I am an architect with 34 years' experience, known as the "Erin Brokovich" of the roofing industry - internationally. I was trained extremely well in Atlanta in architecture, but when I moved to San Francisco, I caught on to about 800 people in the UCSF Facilities Dept. on the take for illegally sole-sourcing products. Shockingly, this is common in education across the country, in Maintenance, Operations and Transportation Departments all the way up the food chain and to School Boards. UCSF fired me for finally going to the FBI about it, over 200 men and women in the roofing industry and the media all over the US called me from 24 states, out of the blue I freaked out. It's huge. It's terrible what happened - I was an elected member of the Georgia Board of the American Institute of Architects when I came out here...and got trashed by criminals in education and politicians. My last attorney discovered how UC is operating illegally. I have many documents up on blogs to help people in many countries and states now that call....and do a lot - all on my own dime. My literary agent sent a story about me a few weeks ago to Huffpo - and they turned it down. Just for background, I have two Master's degrees, one from Georgia Tech - and that's hard to get. I treasure learning, but not stealing. And especially from education.
08:35 PM on 01/28/2012
Unemployment Brown... when not knighting bankers he introduced top up fees in the the UK to prevent the poorest children from going to university. In the hope they would end up on beneifts in the hope they would vote labour, in his benefits for votes policy.

Brown like many of his "kind" love to pretend to care for the poor and then rob them blind. Exploiting their trust.

I myself believe in compassionate government and education is the best way to create equal opportunity.

However as we have seen most foreign aid ends up being profit making for the charities, governments and dictators rather than helping anyone.

Gordon Unemployment Brown remains a cruel and very unhappy man, an insincere person who should not be trusted with the education of any child.

For years the poor have been defrauded by snake oil salesmen like Brown and sadly it continues.

Only God can save people.
05:20 AM on 01/29/2012
Just to get a few facts straight: Top up fees were introduced following a report commissioned by Tory PM John Major. Children from poorer families have ALWAYS BEEN EXEMPT.

As for unemployment, under the Labour Govt they stayed at around 5% until the global crisis of 2008. They were declining again until the tory/lib dem govt took over and are now rapidly rising again.

You are entitled to your opinions, but not your own facts.
05:16 PM on 01/29/2012
Your loyalty to Brown is touching.

Under labour the UK had 4 million healthy adults on welfare. Brown introduced top up fees in 1998, under a labour government. 30% of 16 year olds left shcool in the UK with no qualifications for 12 years under labour.

Unemployment hit 5.3 million as Brown left and was going up. His 50% tax preventing any growth.

Your support for Brown and his kind is touching but based on a fantasy.

As for browns idea, again it is based on trusting government. If you do sign up to it, if not accept the money will vanish and the children will be left with nothing.

Huffington...try not to block post because they do not support some radical far left view, thanks. Centralist and moderates like me deserve freedom of speech also.
05:15 PM on 01/27/2012
Please see the Global Partnership for Education's response to Gordon Brown's report:

http://www.educationforallblog.org/education-funding/our-response-to-gordon-brown%e2%80%99s-report-on-education

Many thanks,

Bob Prouty, Head of the Secretariat, Global Partnership for Education
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NoPartyCharlie
08:17 PM on 01/29/2012
Who profits from the funds allocated from governments to support this cause? Don't citizens have a right to not support this foundation but their government does it anyway with their taxpayer dollars?
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El Chingaso
Fighting for mental superiority...
03:50 PM on 01/27/2012
Mr. Brown isn’t serious, is he? "The GFE would engage the business sector, and have the flexibility to make grants to NGOs and private companies, as well as national governments and multinational agencies." Oh, that's reassuring (wink-wink) – all under the emotional guise of “educating” children.

How quaint, and how very, very borish. Next!
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Ramkshrestha
Welcome to Nepal - the birthplace of Buddha
01:21 PM on 01/27/2012
What if that fund goes through UNICEF? Any problem Mr. Brown?
12:09 PM on 01/27/2012
Mr. Prime Minister, how many global funds should we create? Why must we look to the Global World to educate our children, are we not doing a proper job? We have embraced many, many global aspects of the world but trusting more government involvement with education is NOT the way to go!
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NoPartyCharlie
08:18 PM on 01/29/2012
I trust citizens, smaller local governments, and small companies a million times more than internationalists, big corporate, big pharma, and big global governance.
10:06 AM on 01/27/2012
There already is one: UNESCO
You oppose it because they recognized one of your enemies as a country
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Ben Wilson
Might as well laugh while you still can.
09:50 AM on 01/27/2012
Sorry Gordon, but I think the whole world is tired of global-funds. The money never seems to be spent, nevermind spent correctly. it would be nice if there was half a dozen cost effective and succesful examples to look towards, but there isn't. Help is always short-term and token. Where did all the Tsunami money go? Or Haitis money? It's always the same...Mass aid that ends up down the drain or floating on the stock markets or in bank accounts...It's like Bill & Warren, how can these men be generous when they money they donate, even to their own projects is still floating around bank accounts. It's not charity unless you spend, and it's not charity if your thinking about your grand plan over the needys immediate needs.
04:52 AM on 01/27/2012
Go away you Kirkcaldy donkey and think about how you bankrupted the once great Britain with a little help from your fellow liar Tony the phony Blair.
This pair of stooges Brown and Blair who had never run so much as a hot dog stand bankrupted Britain and swamped it with uneducated non working high breeding immigrants who were sucking on welfare in exchange for labor votes.
Go hide your head and try like Blair to show yourself in public in your home country and see what you get.
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NoPartyCharlie
08:22 PM on 01/29/2012
The funny thing is these guys really are into worshiping demonic forces. I read an article that was from an established source....cant remember I think it was the london times, that talked about how Blair every morning shakes around in bed screaming that he sees light and does some sort of excorcism like ritual. A lot of these neocons go to the annual Bohemian Grove, where they run around naked in the woods and worship a burning moloch ( seriously Newt Gingrich, the bush dynasty, Cheney, all members, all have had photographs taken and published in the surrounding papers)
04:54 PM on 01/30/2012
wouldnt you wake up like that if you were married to his better half
04:44 AM on 01/27/2012
The money came from the tax should be invested in the development of the country and social activities.
04:35 AM on 01/27/2012
Charity begins at home. WE have no end of illiterate young people even though endless money and resources have been poured into education. THEY need help (guidance, not money). What is being done to give our own young people a sense of purpose and, MORE IMPORTANTLY perhaps, what is being done to encourage them and their parents, to realize how fortunate they are. Whilst poor children in China, India and elsewhere are grabbing any opportunities they can to educate themselves and get work, the socialist system in our country encouraged OUr young people to be dependent on the State and NOT have pride and strive to better themselves. Children in this country, no matter how poor, have the resources available to them. That which is missing is the desire or capability, perhaps, of uneducated parents to encourage their children to learn and convince them that education is worthwhile. Presumably Brown is looking for a new job - what does he really care about the poor - he lives in a different world and, like his counterparts, is interested only in making money and a name for himself. In my view, our children need to be encouraged to use the resources available to them to help them created a better life for themselves
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Michael Steaphens
It's all about liberty.
12:54 AM on 01/27/2012
More global socialism we don't need...