Top aid donors are failing to invest enough in global education and should act urgently to meet a 2015 goal for all children to attend primary school, global education campaigner Sarah Brown has said.
The spouse of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke to Devex following the launch of research that shows nine of the world’s largest bilateral donors to basic education have decreased spending on the area since 2010. Brown called for the countries to “stop making excuses” and address why 58 million children remained out of school so close to the Millennium Development Goals deadline.
A World at School, which Brown co-founded, also revealed in the report that the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Australia, Canada, Sweden and the Netherlands had all scaled back their contributions.