This toolkit aims to help education activists reinforce their advocacy and campaign work on education financing. It aims to give practical information in an accessible form, together with ideas for how to build an effective national campaign – the evidence you can build and the tactics you can deploy.
It focuses on holding national governments, particularly Ministries of Finance, to account, challenging them when they are internalising ideological positions pushed by external actors. The toolkit is addressed to national coalitions, teacher unions, NGOs and others, to deal with strategic issues around education financing so that more money flows more effectively into education systems and more children can learn in good quality public schools.
The toolkit includes:
- “On the way to EFA”, which provides some international context to the state of education around the world and the critical role of financing issues
- An introduction to education financing issues, touching on macroeconomics, education budgets, tax and aid
- A list of twenty questions to check your collective knowledge
- Frequently asked questions (FAQs) so that you can pre-empt things that others will ask you, or get simple answers to questions you may have yourselves
- Ten key points on education financing: a simple way of popularising key ideas and facts
- Ideas on how to engage in education financing work or to build your national campaign
- How to collect key data / statistics as a basis for a national campaign
- Key questions to ask in an interview, for example with your Ministry of Finance