Priorities
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the greatest disruption to education in history, affecting 1.6 billion children and youth. It has exacerbated existing inequalities and magnified the global learning crisis.
The pandemic has profound implications for education financing, equity and learning, which are the keys to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4.
The world is facing an education emergency
72 million
$1.5 trillion
258 million
more children are at risk of learning poverty as a result of COVID-19 school closures.
was already required to fill the education financing gap in low- and middle-income countries before COVID-19. This gap could now increase by a third.
children were already out of school pre-COVID. An additional 24 million children and youth are at risk of not returning to school after the pandemic.
We’re helping parliamentarians advocate for:
There are a broad range of areas that require urgent action to deliver SDG 4.
We have chosen financing, equity and learning as our main priorities, but within each of these areas there are a range of issues which IPNEd member parliamentarians advocate for.
Priority areas for our current members include education in emergencies, disability-inclusive education and girls’ education.
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