2021 gem report - non state actors
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Non-state actors in education

2021/2 GEM Report
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UNESCO’s annual Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report began in 2002 as the Education for All Global Monitoring Report with the aim of
holding the global community to account for the commitments they made to education progress. For over two decades, the report has informed national, regional and global debates.

This anniversary celebration is also a recognition of the contributions of past and current report team members, UNESCO colleagues and partners who have worked tirelessly behind the scenes to produce what has been referred to as “required reading” for policy makers and education advocates alike.

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2022 South Asia Report - Non-state actors in education
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Spotlight on basic education completion and foundational learning in Africa: Born to learn
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Updated - Setting commitments: National SDG 4 benchmarks to transform education
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Resources

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Education Profiles

Countries’ laws and policies on key themes in education.

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Education Progress

Summaries of key facts and trends in education around the world through five themes.

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Education Estimates

Provides estimates of the completion and out of school rates.

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Education Inequalities

Highlights circumstances like wealth, gender, ethnicity and location in shaping opportunities for education.

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News and blogs

The latest GEM Report news and blogs.
Children with learning differences are being excluded

By: Suzanne Grant Lewis
All children are born to learn - but so many never do

By: GEM Report
Spotlight report on challenges and solutions for foundational learning in Africa

By: GEM Report
Launch of Leveraging Education Analysis for Results Network (LEARN)

By: GEM Report
Every child deserves to be able to read a simple text by age ten

By: Vicky Ford, MP
A baseline report to monitor the G7 Global Objectives on girls’ education

By: GEM Report
Shining the spotlight on Ghana

By: GEM Report
The education of tens of millions of girls is at risk of collapse

By: Oliver Mawhinne
Achieving education for all through standards, not standardisation

By: Dr. Maria Ron Balsera, TaxEd Alliance Coordinator
To transform education we need a Copernican revolution on how we work together

By Bathylle Missika and Laura Savage
Innovative EdTech approaches to provide education to hard-to-reach learners

By All Children Reading Innovators
More boys than girls have been out of school since 2007

By: GEM Report
How all girls can go to school. The story of Miremba

By: Promoting Equality in African Schools (PEAS)
What is the emerging evidence on the impact of the pandemic on out-of-school rates?

By Olivier Labé
Two years on and no let-up for children’s education in Tigray

By: GEM Report
A new opportunity to help ensure all children learn and fulfill their potential

By Jaime Saavedra, World Bank, Stefania Giannini, UNESCO, Robert Jenkins, UNICEF, Alicia Herbert, FCDO, UK, LeAnna Marr, USAID, Benjamin Piper, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
A time for transformation and a new deal for teachers

By: David Edwards
Transforming education, transforming the world

By: Yasmine Sherif
A call to action on the follow-up of the Transforming Education Summit commitments

By: GEM Report
Ready to Learn and Thrive

By: Robert Jenkins, Victor Aguayo, Stefania Giannini, Lynnette Neufeld, Carmen Burbano and Dr Rüdiger Krech
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STATISTICS

These statistics are taken from GEM Report materials.
244 MILLION
OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH

between the ages of 6 and 18 worldwide were out of school in 2021

39%
OF TOTAL EDUCATION SPENDING

is covered by households in low- and lower-middle-income countries
12%
OF FAMILIES

borrow to pay for education in low-income countries
90%
OF COUNTRIES

have now got SDG 4 benchmarks for progress until 2030.