Education and financing strategies for fragile states
On March 11, 2008, a working session group representing governments, donor agencies, multilateral organizations, and NGOs was hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC to discuss a set of recommendations for developing a new global aid architecture for education that would specifically address children and youth affected by conflict.
The goal of this meeting was to determine if there was a set of options that could be agreed upon to present to the Education For All Fast Track Initiative (FTI) Steering Committee in Tokyo, Japan at its April 2008 meeting. That consensus consists of three primary recommendations that are provided in this short document for review, consideration, and endorsement.
The following recommendations are detailed:
- the expansion of the FTI to include an Interim Status designation
- that financing for Interim Status FTI countries will be through an accompanying financing mechanism
- a further process to develop a detailed scoping of the most viable mechanism/s to be presented at the next FTI Steering Committee meeting in Oslo by the Fragile States Task Team
