Welcome to the Key! Here you can find a comprehensive information toolkit to help you advocate for education both locally and on the global stage.
From government and aid budgets to corporate boardrooms, education is on the chopping block. The Key has all of the talking points, facts and infographics to answer questions such as why invest in education now, why is it relevant and how does it relate to other priorities?Ìý
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Left behind from the start: How governments and donors are failing children with disabilities in their early years (July 2018)
This policy brief highlights the needs of children with disabilities in the early years.Ìý It then makes a specific case for the promotion of inclusive and equitable pre-primary education as part of a holistic framework of nurturing care support for children with disabilities.ÌýÌý
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Donor Scorecard: Just Beginning
Addressing inequality in donor funding for Early Childhood Development
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Just Beginning – Donor Profiles: World Bank and UNICEF
Below are two donor profiles compiled to support our scorecardÌýJust Beginning:ÌýAddressing inequality in donor funding for Early Childhood Development. This research presents an overview of the disbursements that UNICEF and the World Bank have made to Early Childhood Development (ECD) overall, and to pre-primary more specifically over the last 15 years. The research has chosen to focus on UNICEF and the World Bank given that these donors are seen to have led global efforts in promoting arguments in favour of investing in children in the early years, as laid out in their planning documents. The strategies outlining commitments over the SDG period of both donors illustrate the emphasis they place on investing in pre-primary education, recognising that without investment here targets for other SDG areas are unlikely to be met. UNICEF and the World Bank are the largest multilateral donors to ECD in 2016. In addition, the World Bank continues to be the largest donor to pre-primary education in volume terms, while UNICEF is amongst the largest in terms of its share of the total ODA to pre-primary education. Yet, as the following profiles illustrate, financial commitments to pre-primary education by both these donors highlights that, even with these donors, their stated commitment to pre-primary education is not sufficiently matched by their spending
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Just Beginning: Methodology
Below we outline the methodology used in our Donor Scorecard Just Beginning:ÌýAddressing inequality in donor funding for Early Childhood Development.ÌýThe methodology draws on the Muskoka Methodology ¹ú²úÊÓƵ“Ìý devised by the G8 Health Working Group, and using the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Countdown ODA and dataset.