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Contributions from
the Column
Studies and reports
Basic schooling
Development policy must assist in shaping globalisation
Famine in Southern Africa fuelled by AIDS
What does eastward expansion mean for
EU development policy?
World population report –
Hope of a „demographic
window“
Start of development
cooperation between
Germany and East Timor
Second spring for German funded media support?
Companies in conflict regions
have a major responsibility
01/2003
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Basic schooling
for all by 2015 – that is the goal of
the World Bank’s ‘Education for
All Fast Track Initiative’. And fast-tracking
is desperately needed. At the end of
2001, UNESCO pointed out that the
millennium target could not be
reached if donors did not significantly
step up their commitment. Now, as
part of the World Bank initiative, a number
of bilateral and multilateral donors
have decided to support basic education
programmes in seven African and
Latin American countries to the tune of
400 million US dollars. Because the countries selected are all pretty small, however, the
initiative will create only four million of the 150 million primary school places needed by 2015.
It is a start – but is it fast-tracking? To speed things up, the World Bank is encouraging India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Congo-Kinshasa and Nigeria to qualify for the initiative. Creating the 50 million school places those countries need would indeed be a massive step forward. But would willing donors be able to agree quite so fast on how much money should be provided by whom? (ell)
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