What has RESULTS in the UK achieved in promoting education for all?

RESULTS campaigns in support of the Education For All objectives with a particular emphasis on ensuring that the UK does all it can to ensure that the EFA’s objectives are met as speedily and effectively as possible. RESULTS works particularly hard to encourage the removal of barriers to education that continue to impede progress towards the EFA goals.

Our recent campaigns have involved the following main activities:

• Producing a report to act as a concise source of information on the challenges that still face the delivery of education for all in 2008. This report particularly highlights the barriers preventing the remaining 72 million out-of-school children from getting an education. The report has been delivered to MPs, MEPs, key government officials, Commonwealth bodies and other NGOs in order to stimulate debate on several key recommendations. You can access the report here, and the key recommendations made in the report here.
• Building relationships with key government officials, especially at DFID, so that we could express our concerns and better promote education for all.
• Mobilising support from other NGOs so that UK civil society could speak with one voice.
• Informing and engaging MPs through letter writing and face-to-face meetings.
• Submitting evidence to the International Development Select Committee in October 2007.

Key successes:

• Generated media coverage of the issue through grassroots action. To view some of this coverage, see the 'Media generated by RESULTS/grassroots volunteers' on our publications page.
• In July 2007, the World Bank and IMF agreed to ‘significantly reduce’ the use of wage ceilings. Wage ceilings are conditions imposed by the IMF which restrict the size of the public sector wage bill. This means that countries often cannot employ sufficient teachers, and that wages for the teachers that are employed are kept at an artificially low level, causing problems such as high levels of departure from the profession and low numbers of new recruits.

Current Campaign

RESULTS is continuing to campaign for the abolition of user fees and are seeking to persuade the UK government to exert pressure on the World Bank and other International Institutions to end their support for such damaging and counterproductive measures. We are also campaigning for resources to be directed at breaking down other barriers preventing education for all, including calling for investment in education in Conflict-Affected Fragile States (CAFS) and the education of disabled children within mainstream schools.

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