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Tuesday, March 6, 2018 | 02:00PM-04:00PM | MC C13-121 | 1818 H St., NW |
You can also watch it on World Bank Live webpage The hashtag for promoting the event is #SocialAcc |
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Round Table Participants: Chair: Debbie Wetzel
Keynote: Dan Stoner Co-Chair of the Basic Education Coalition Vice President for Education and Child Protection at Save the Children US
Manager for Global Knowledge & Innovation, Education Global Practice
CEO Global Partnership for Education
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The World Bank’s Global Partnership for Social Accountability’s (GPSA) portfolio has a set of projects where promising examples of civil society, governments and other stakeholders use collaborative social accountability to improve education around the world. The last 50 years have generated high hopes of great schooling expansion, but much remains to be done. As countries have committed to ensuring inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning (Sustainable Development Goal 4), the World Development Report 2018 (WDR 2018) – LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise – warns that there is a “learning crisis”. It identifies three policy actions to accelerate learning for all: assess learning to make it a serious goal; act on evidence to make schools work for learners; align actors, to make the system work for learning. Citizen-driven data, community engagement and accountability, and multi-stakeholder coalitions can support the implementation of these actions. In addition, the 2017/18 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Second Report analyzes how accountability processes can contribute towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goal on education. The report, as the WDR 2018, underscores that everyone has a role in improving education – “civil society support can be crucial”. Moreover, the 2004 WDR on Making Services for the Poor galvanized global efforts to strengthen citizen-driven accountability processes in order to improve delivery and responsiveness of services, while the 2017 WDR on Governance and the Law advocates citizen engagement in the policy process. The GPSA works with over 50 governments and more than 260 civil society and private sector partners towards solving governance challenges around the world. Discussants and members of the GPSA’s Steering Committee will discuss the contribution that collaborative social accountability can make in the education sector in general and specifically towards addressing the learning crisis. |
Read the roundtable blogpost written by Jeff Thindwa, Program Manager for the GPSA. Read more takeaways from the roundtable in the event report. |
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