Lunch-time conference: "Education for All by 2030? - Challenges for global education"

February is the month dedicated to education within the European Year for Development 2015 - the first ever European Year to focus on development cooperation. In this context, the External Cooperation Infopoint (Brussels) will be hosting a series of events organised by the European Commission in cooperation with other partners to address specific issues within education for development.

On the 24^th February (12:30 to 13:30) the Lunch-time conference at the External Cooperation Infopoint will address Challenges for global education with the motto "EDUCATION FOR ALL BY 2030?"

Introduction will be made by Ms Véronique Lorenzo, Head of Unit DEVCO B4: Education, Health, Culture and Research, from the European Commission, followed by a presentation by Ms. Karen Schroh, Senior Donor Relations Specialist from the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). In the end there will be a Q/A moment with the participants.

Registration required via: EUROPEAID-INFOPOINT-CONFERENCES@ec.europa.eu

Conference Language: English (Q&A session: English/French)

This event is contributing to the European Year for Development 2015. More events will be announced shortly!

A snapshot of the conference: Challenges for Global Education

Established in 2002, the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) works in 60 developing countries. Strategically, the Global Partnership for Education focuses on supporting education in fragile and conflict-affected countries, promoting girls' education, increasing basic numeracy and literacy skills in primary school, improving teachers’ effectiveness and help expanding external and domestic financing for education.

How can the Global Partnership contribute to meeting the Millennium Development Goal for education? How does the Global Partnership work with the EU and other donors and partners? What are the lessons learned from the Global Partnership’s 2014/15 Results for Learning report?

Let's try to respond to these questions and explore the new challenges of global education.

Coordination between GPE, World Bank and the EU in Nicaragua

Currently, the GPE, the World Bank and the EU are the three main donors supporting the implementation of the Education Sector Plan in Nicaragua. These partners have been working together to foster effective monitor and review mechanisms, such as joint supervision missions, and are making considerable efforts to harmonise their interventions. Part of this joint effort has included the elaboration of a single Communications and Visibility Plan for the GPE/EU/World Bank interventions. The following video shows how this coordination is working at the country level. It was prepared by the Ministry of Education with the collaboration of the WB education experts, press officers and the EU cooperation advisor and the Press and Communications Section.  

Spanish version uploaded to the Ministry of Education's Youtube channel:

http://youtu.be/K8jdipR_Cvw

A copy of the video with audio in English and/or English subtitles will be released soon.