Education for all: Fast track or slow trickle

Author:
Oliver Buston
Publisher:
Oxfam International
Publication Date:
8 April 2003
Tags:
Education, Africa, Niger, Tanzania, Mozambique, Environment

At the spring 2002 meeting of the World Bank, the member countries launched the Education for All Fast Track Initiative and promised to provide increased and better coordinated aid to countries with credible strategies. In Niger the government has increased enrollment by 10 percent in five year, Mozambique has almost doubled enrollments in the last decade, 1.6 million children now attend school after the Tanzanian government made basic education free and Kenya has pledged improvements. But the donor response, says Oxfam, is inadequate.

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