TACKLING THE COVID-19 EDUCATION EMERGENCY THROUGH A PROGRESSIVE UNIVERSALISM APPROACH TO PUBLIC FINANCING

The Save Our Future campaign, supported by nearly 200 organisations around the globe, highlights that COVID-19 has placed an entire generation’s education and future at risk. This risk needs to be averted with urgency, given that education is also the solution to the longer-term recovery from this pandemic.

The Save Our Future White Paper, launched just a few days ago, stresses that we have to work together to turn this crisis into an opportunity. At the heart of much of the priorities identified with this paper is the importance of mobilising and redistributing resources for the poorest countries in the world.

This is in recognition of the fact that the pandemic is likely to have a greater adverse effect on resources available for education, and these were already too low in many countries.

According to estimates by the Global Education Monitoring Report, the annual external financing gap could increase by up to US$193 billion annually between 2020 and 2030

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