What the Education Financing Commission Should Recommend: A Policy Briefing

In this policy brief, the Global Campaign for Education, outlines ten clear recommendations for the Education Financing Commission, which will launch its report on 18th Spetember, 2016. The recommendations are:

1. Ensure harmony with existing education efforts (the right to education and Education 2030) as wells as existing mechanisms, such as the Global Partnership for Education
2. Support free education
3. Support public education
4. Ensure long term, predictable, and sustainable financing
5. Ensure inclusive and democratic country-led processes
6. Emphasise the diverse aims of education and look beyond standardised testing to a wide range of indicators
7. Ensure governments allocate at least 20% of their budgets to education
8. Ensure governments increase budget size
9. Budgets should prioritise equity
10. Budgets should be transparent and subject to scrutiny