Missed Opportunity: how could funds lost to tax incentives in Africa be used to fill the education finance gap?
How much revenue do African governments lose from providing tax incentives, such as giving companies tax holidays and exemptions on paying taxes on import duties and value added tax? And if these
ActionAid's education response to COVID-19
ActionAid’s ten point call to action for education during Covid-19 provides guidance to staff and partners working on education to effectively engage with governments in their respective countries and
Human rights: universal, inalienable and indivisible
This blog is by Dr. Maria Ron Balsera, the Research and Advocacy Coordinator for ActionAid International. She works on Tax Privatisation and the Right to Education: influencing education financing
Funding girls' education in emergencies
Covid-19 has had devastating impact on young women’s education. Young women and girls are at higher risk of early marriage and pregnancy. Massive investment in education is urgently needed. Let’s
The Sustainability of the Global Partnership for Education: The Role of Domestic Resource Mobilisation
Financing for Education: Let's Make Aid RedundantOn 26th June in Brussels the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) is seeking to raise $3.5 billion in a replenishment event, to support low income
ActionAid’s education work around the first International Day of the Girl
The UN General Assembly’s decision to institute 11th October as the International Day of the Girl marks the international community’s political will to promote girls’ rights by highlighting the
Action for Children's Rights in Education (ACRE) - Policy Brief
A policy brief based on a comparative analysis of a research undertaken in six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, using ActionAid’s Promoting Rights in Schools Framework as part of the Action for
Action for Children's Rights in Education (ACRE) - Success Stories
The purpose of this document is to demonstrate some of the ways the ACRE project teams in each of the six participating countries successfully managed to operationalize the Promoting Rights in Schools
Launch of factsheets with sustainable solutions to finance education
Launch of three factsheets with sustainable solutions to finance education
International Literacy Day: Covid-19’s impact on equality in education
Schools can act as a powerful equalising force in any society. But is the Covid-19 pandemic is at risk of deepening existing inequalities in education? 190 organisations join ActionAid's calls for
