Global Campaign for Education: WB/IMF Panel Announcement Sat 25Apr

[Guest guest]

Education on the

Brink: Macroeconomic Policies' and Aid Flows' Impacts on Teachers

Saturday April 25, 2009

9-10:30 AM

World Bank Headquarters, 1818 H Street,

NW

MC-100 level

Sponsor: Global

Campaign for Education

Speakers: Amy Gray, GCE IFI Policy

Officer; Nock, Policy/Advocacy Adviser, VSO International;

Soren Ambrose,

Development

Finance Coordinator, ActionAid International

TBC: Kobina Osei,

Officer for Salaries and Conditiions of Service, General Secretary of

the Ghana National Association of Teachers; Kouassi Soman, Senior

Operations Officer, Education For All - Fast Track Initiative Secretariat

As teachers are central to the

education system, financing teachers in developing countries

is necessary to the scale up required to reach Education For All

goals. Yet achieving this, especially in low income countries, is

challenged by the interplay of donor behavior and macroeconomic policy frameworks.

This panel looks at the impacts of macroeconomic policies on the education

sector and specifically on financing teachers, and will serve to launch

GCE's new study on this topic. The role of predictable aid flows

will also be addressed, drawn from a recent study on the same topic by the

Fast Track Initiative.

Join us to learn

what is standing in the way of training and hiring the teachers needed to

overcome illiteracy and what the various actors involved can do to remove these

barriers.

Note:

Attendance at this event requires prior registration as a civil society

participant at WB/IMF 2009 Spring Meetings. We encourage those interested

to arrive by 8:15 AM in order to clear security in time for the event.

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Amy Gray

IFI Education Policy Officer

Global Campaign for Education

202 468 7932 (mobile)