Africa: Insufficient Domestic Funding Hinders Education Progress

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image An empty classroom in a secondary school in southern Senegal. © 2019 Elin Martinez/Human Rights Watch (Abuja) – Most African governments have consistently failed to meet global and regional education funding targets to ensure quality public education, Human Rights Watch said today on the African Union’s Day of the African Child.The 2025 theme for the day is “planning and budgeting for children’s rights: progress since 2010.” However, based on national data reported to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), only…

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