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 2011-12-01 04:58:02 - Public Financing and Democratic Ownership for an Available, Accessible, Acceptable and Adaptable Public Education CSACEFA acknowledges that
1. The State is responsible for providing the necessary financial conditions for the realization of the Human Right to Education for All. According to the General Observation # 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), no State can avoid the unequivocal obligation to provide adequate financial support to education on the grounds that it lacks the necessary resources; for this purpose fiscal mechanisms shall be established to collect and allocate the necessary resources to sustain a public education service that responds to the integral realization of the human right to education, under equal conditions, guaranteeing its availability, accessibility, acceptability and adaptability for all. The same observation states that when a State clearly lacks the necessary fin read more |
2011-11-29 03:49:54 - Millennium Development Goals: Nigeria struggles to meet target to educate over 10m Out of School Children For Nigeria's poorest children, school is an impossible dream despite Millennium Development Goal to end illiteracy. Poverty shuts school gates Jummai Nkwo will not let her daughter Mary go to school. "I'd like her to go, but it's just too expensive and I need her. I'm a widow. We have to work to keep everyone in the family fed. So she goes every day with me to the bush to cut wood and then we take it to sell in Abuja." Mary, who is 12 but looks about seven, is plucking at the kitten embroidered on her grubby T-shirt as she listens. Would she like to go to school? Yes, she says shyly. She's seen two of her elder sisters go and she thinks it would be nice to learn things such as English. "I want to be able to take care of myself and my children," she tells me. But this modest desire makes her mother laugh, and after a while so do all the other women standing around the cooking pot as the evening porridge bubbles. "Mary's job is to get the water," smiles one, and Mary is too embarrassed to say any more. Jummai didn't go to school, she says, and clearly she can't see the point. In any case, s
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2011-11-28 03:44:45 - Message on International Literacy Day PRESS RELEASE 8th September 2011 CSACEFA STATEMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY, 8 SEPTEMBER 2011: Violent Conflict as a Major Threat to the Attainment of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Nigeria. The 2011 International Literacy Day, falling on Thursday, 8th September, is the second after the 6th International Conference on Literacy and Adult Education (CONFINTEA VI) held in December 2009 in Belem, Brazil, where UNESCO member states adopted strategies for enhancing coherent action in promoting literacy for all. The chosen theme for this year’s literacy day is Literacy and Peace. It is a follow up to the 2010 theme which was, The Power of Women’s Literacy. The recent spate of bombings in Nigeria culminating in the bombing of the UN Building in Abuja represents a dangerous dimension to violent assaults which obviously poses a very grave challenge and a cog in the wheel of progress on development goals. Similarly, many African countries in Africa are now in danger of not achieving the MDGs by 2015 due to escalation of conflicts. 6 Years ago, an MDG Report (2005) focusing on violent conflict warned that violence pose a real threat to achieving the MDGs. The report ri
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