Alieu Jallow Alieu Jallow was the first blind pupil at Bakoteh Lower Basic School in The Gambia. He continuously achieves some of the highest grades in the school. © Jenny Matthews / Sightsavers

Global campaign for education

The Global Campaign for Education promotes education as a basic human right, and mobilizes public pressure on governments and the international community to fulfill their promises to provide free, compulsory public basic education for all people; in particular for children, women and all disadvantaged, deprived sections of society.

We believe education is:

• A universal human right
• The key to poverty alleviation and sustainable human development
• A core responsibility of the state
• Achievable if governments mobilize the political will and available resources

Together we are calling for:

• Governments, to involve citizens' groups, teachers and communities in developing concrete plans of action for delivering and sustaining free, good quality public education for all
• Governments, to abolish fees and charges for public primary education, and to increase their own spending on adult, early childhood, primary and basic education, with priority investments in schools and teachers serving the most disadvantaged groups
• On the World Bank and rich Northern countries, to increase aid and debt relief for basic education, and fund a Global Initiative to back national plans with speedy, coordinated and predictable delivery of the additional resources needed
• On civil society organizations, to hold their own governments and international institutions accountable for upholding the right to education, and delivering on the Education for All goals.

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