Making learning for all a reality: what is needed?

Education 2030　calls　for　quality　education　for all. Enrollment in primary education has improved in manydeveloping countries, leaving acquisition of minimum learning a majorchallenge. The aid community is responding... [ view full abstract ]

Education 2030　calls　for　quality　education　for all. Enrollment in primary education has improved in manydeveloping countries, leaving acquisition of minimum learning a majorchallenge. The aid community is responding to this challenge by relying onresults-based financing as an aid modality in which aid money is released to acountry after achieving pre-agreed outcomes measured by indicators. It has beenfound that most of these outcome indicators are in fact intermediate outcomes (aproportion of trained teachers, for example) that are believed to work for producingfinal outcomes (improved learning). But the pathways from intermediate to finaloutcomes are not presented to the countries, nor does the aid community isprepared to provide effective answers. This talk will spur discussions on whatis missing for making learning for all a reality by providing research findingson some promising practical cases in Asian and African countries.