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The UNESCO Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, has revealed that latest aid figures to education went down by almost US$600 million, or per cent between 2013 and 2014.
The report also showed that the share of total aid being allocated to education also fell from 9.5 per cent to 8.2 per cent, indicating that the sector is falling further down the list of priorities.
It further showed that aid to basic education, providing for pre-primary and primary education as well as basic life skills, has decreased by per cent since 2013, an even greater fall than for education as a whole.
Meanwhile, out- of- school numbers for primary education are on the rise, totaling 59 million by latest counts, according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
The GEM Report has previously calculated that aid to education needs would increase by, at least, six times to fill the annual finance gap of $39 billion in order to provide the global target of 12 years of quality education for all by 2030.
Yet the latest analysis shows that, rather than rising, levels of aid to the sector are 8 per cent lower than they were in 2010. To fill the remaining gap and reach the target, these aid levels now need to increase seven-fold.
Director of the GEM Report, UNESCO, Aaron Benavot said “It is disheartening to see that international aid to education is going in totally the wrong direction. This will make education progress extremely difficult, if not impossible, for many countries still reliant on financial support from donors. And early indications of aid flows for 2015 do not leave much room for optimism.”
Source: http://leadership.ng/news/522309/global-aid-support-education-falls-report
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