1. Global Seminar Series Human Development: Education for All
How to address the Challenges of International Aid:
The case of a Global Decentralized partnership, the EFA-FTI Partnership

2. Challenges of Aid : Volume
Need to increase aid, especially to basic education in Low Income Countries

3. Challenges of aid : Effectiveness
Need for long term and predictable support
Donors need to Align Aid with National Priorities

4. Challenges of Aid : Effectiveness
Donors need to harmonize their aid arrangements and procedures (joint assessments and review missions)
Aid should not be tied

5. Mutual Accountability
The Education for All - Fast Track Initiative A global partnership between developing countries and donors to accelerate progress towards the goal of universal completion of quality primary education by 2015.
Partner Countries
Develop sound education sector programs through broad based consultation
Demonstrate results on key performance indicators
Exercise leadership in developing and implementing the program and coordinating donor support
Donors
Help mobilize resources and make them more predictable
Align with country development priorities
Coordinate support around one education plan
Harmonize procedures as much as possible
Mutual Accountability

6. FTI Helps Both Sides of the Compact
Mechanism to accelerate progress towards universal primary education
Donors:
Platform for aid effectiveness
Better coordination and harmonization of aid at national and global level
More countries on track to achieving UPC
Developing Countries:
More efficient aid for primary education
Sustained increases in aid for primary education
Sharing of knowledge and experience

7. How a Global Partnership can improve aid at the Country level
Madagascar
Better donor coordination
More focus on results
More flexibility in the use of funds
Improved leadership by the Education Ministry
Sound national plan recognized by all partners
Kenya
Collaborative process for endorsement of education plan resulted in broad political support
Education Sector Program being used as a model for effective coordination of donors and United Nations agencies in a sector wide approach.
Mozambique
Timing for the annual sector review has been changed to feed into the Joint Donor Review.
Effort by pooled fund signatories to include their aid in the budget

8. “To build a country, build a schoolhouse.”
Thank you
“To build a country, build a schoolhouse.”
Amartya Sen