Global Campaign for Education (GCE): A Dedicated INGO (Universal Primary Education)

The elimination of school fees at Uganda's primary education level was accelerated by the 1996 first direct presidential elections. Since the inception of the universal primary education in 1996 and its actual operationalization in 1997, universal primary education is synonymous with primary education. Because school fees were eliminated before infrastructural improvements in the school system had been undertaken, the access shock created by the elimination of fees resulted in a substantial initial decrease in resources available per pupil and a large increase in the pupil-teacher ratio. The purpose of this chapter is to identify the policy incoherencies as well as research or knowledge gaps relating to Uganda's primary education. Nevertheless, what happens in other sectors outside the education sector has strong implications for the realization of the universal primary education objectives. Uganda's universal primary education policy is being undermined by policies within the education sector and policies in other sectors. As such, there is need to mainstream universal primary education into all relevant sectoral policies using the Education-In-All-Policies Approach, which would be in the nature of the Health-In-All Policies Approach as well as the Gender-In-All-Policies Approach.

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The Effectiveness of Policy and Practice for "Universal Primary Education" Within Education for All

Learning and Doing Policy Analysis in Education ◽

10.1007/978-94-6091-933-6_3 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 41-60

Author(s):

Fida H Chang

Keyword(s):

Primary Education ◽

Education For All ◽

Universal Primary Education ◽

Policy And Practice

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Improving the International Development Architecture

Ending Global Poverty ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198850175.003.0007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 105-128

Author(s):

Constantine Michalopoulos

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Developing Countries ◽

International Development ◽

Primary Education ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Universal Primary Education ◽

The Core ◽

Development Goals ◽

Run Up ◽

Collaborative Efforts

The end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the next millennium was characterized by an extraordinary burst of international cooperation on development. At the core of this cooperation was the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000 and the related agreement to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The U4 played a role both in the run-up to the MDG agreement and in linking the achievement of the MDG objective of ending poverty to collaborative efforts between donor and recipient, with partners in the driver’s seat setting their own priorities. This chapter starts with a discussion of the agreement to establish the MDGs at the UN and its implications for development. Then it turns to the perennial question of how much aid developed countries should commit to provide to developing countries, and what donors and recipients must do to make aid more effective, two central issues of the Monterrey Conference on Finance for Development in 2002. The last part discusses the special U4 and international community efforts to achieve universal primary education and to battle HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.

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