10 April 2006
Keeping our promises: Delivering education for all
The education Millennium Development Goals aim to ensure that, by 2015, all boys and girls have free primary schooling. Yet, every day 100 million of the world's children will not go to school. And most who lose out are girls - denied the most basic chance to reach their potential.
On April 10 2006, at the invitation of President Guebuza, the Chancellor and Hilary Benn joined President Mandela in Mozambique to launch a unique campaign - to turn promises on education into reality, school by school, class by class and child by child. They announced that for the first time, Britain will enter into 10 year agreements with poor countries to finance 10 year education plans - locking in the long-term commitment vital to delivering high quality education for all. This £8.5 billon commitment compares to a figure of less than £2 billion over the last 10 years. In addition they announced immediate capacity funding, to help African and other developing countries draw up their ten year plans.
You can read more about the initiative in our pamphlet - 'Keeping our promises: Delivering education for all' which is available below in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). If you do not have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer you can download the software free of charge from the Adobe website. For alternative ways to read PDF documents and further information on website accessibility visit the HM Treasury accessibility page.
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PDF file of Keeping our promises: Delivering education for all (583KB) (ISBN: 978-1-84532-173-4)
