The One Billion Voices campaign by the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) offers a chance to stand together to CALL FOR URGENT ACTION FOR EDUCATION! The voices of the billion people whose education was affected by the pandemic need to be elevated and heard!
The Campaign to urge governments, donors, international organizations to address the lack of education financing aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which worsens the progress towards the entire Sustainable Development Agenda and specifically SDG4.
How Africa can lead on Education in a Post COVID 19 World Report
A new report ‘One Billion Voices: How Africa can lead on education in a post-COVID-19 world’ is based on a desk top review of education financing in Africa, including emerging issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyses government policy documents, national budgets, budget speeches, citizen budgets plus documents on debt servicing, domestic revenue, and taxation The report looked at the following 35 African countries.
GCE is a leading civil society movement that promotes and defends education as a fundamental human right. GCE has over 124 members, made up of national education coalitions, International NGOs, regional networks, and youth-led organizations. GCE advocates for education as a fundamental right. GCE defines education as the foundation for all forms of development and as a catalyst for growth. As a transnational organization, GCE believes that education is the key to ensuring sustainable and equitable economic growth, improved health and social development.
GCE’s initiatives focus on the following strategic areas, equality and no-discrimination, education in emergencies, education financing, and transformative education.
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