Global Coalition for Education Data: Bringing Together Countries and Donors for SDG 4

Without a rapid shift from “business as usual”, one in six children aged 6-17 will still be out of school in 2030 while just six in ten youth will be completing secondary education. Moreover, there is an urgent need to improve the quality of education on offer. Worldwide 55% of children and adolescents of lower secondary school age are not achieving minimum proficiency levels in reading and 60% are reaching these levels in math, according to estimates from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Making Disability Visible: How to Generate More and Better Data on Education for children with disabilities

Two new data resources launched today focus on people with disabilities who are so often disadvantaged and ‘invisible’ when it comes to education. Excluded and uncounted, they are often missing not only from the world’s classrooms, but also from education data.

Lancement de l’Enquête R-D 2019

La recherche et le développement expérimental (R-D) jouent un rôle principal dans la croissance économique d’un pays et ainsi constituent un instrument essentiel dans la réduction de la pauvreté. Dans le cadre des Objectifs de développement durable (ODD), les pays se sont engagés à « Bâtir une infrastructure résiliente, promouvoir une industrialisation durable qui profite à tous et encourager l’innovation ».