Global campaign for education
Global Campaign for Education
AbOUT the Global Campaign for Education
The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) is made up of thousands of organisations, charities, teachers unions, schools, and millions of individuals in over 120 countries. Founded in 1999, GCE is a campaign demanding that world leaders provide education for all.
GCE mobilizes public pressure on governments and the international community to fulfil their promises to provide free, compulsory basic education for all people; in particular for children, women and all disadvantaged, deprived sections of society.
Mission and values
The campaign is driven by the conviction that quality education for all is achievable, and by the concern for the immense costs of failure.
GCE believes that exclusion from education will translate into growing poverty, inequality and deprivation.
The Global Campaign for Education commits itself to achieve its mission with objectivity, transparency and accountability, and to follow democratic norms and processes in all its plans and actions.
We believe education is:
- A universal human right
- Key to poverty alleviation and sustainable human development
- A core responsibility of the state
- Achievable if governments mobilize the political will and available resources.
Demands
The GCE demands that the international community and governments of the South take immediate action to implement the Education for All goals and strategies agreed by 185 world governments at Dakar in April 2000. In particular, we call:
• On governments, to involve citizens' groups, teachers and communities in developing concrete plans of action for delivering and sustaining free, good quality public education for all;
• On governments, to abolish fees and charges for public primary education, and to increase their own spending on adult, early childhood, primary and basic education, with priority investments in schools and teachers serving the most disadvantaged groups;
• On the World Bank and rich Northern countries, to increase aid and debt relief for basic education, and fund a Global Initiative to back national plans with speedy, coordinated and predictable delivery of the additional resources needed;
• On civil society organizations, to hold their own governments and international institutions accountable for upholding the right to education, and delivering on the Education for All goals.
Funding
The GCE’s core costs are funded through fees from its members.
Current activities
The Global Campaign for Education has an annual programme of public mobilisation, focusing around a Global Action Week, held at the end of April.
In 2007, the mobilisation is titled ‘JOIN UP – education rights now!’. The JOIN UP campaign is asking people to join the world’s longest chain, by signing up online, or sending a paper chain to their national leader.
External links
Global Campaign for Education
JOIN UP – education rights now!
National education campaigns
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