30 Sep 2025
Funding the Future: How Outcome-Based Financing can Strengthen Education Systems
NORRAG participated in the UKFIET 2025 conference in Oxford, held under the theme “Mobilising Knowledge, Partnerships, and Innovations for Sustainable Development through Education and Training.” On Tuesday 17 September 2025, the session “Funding the Future: How Outcome-Based Financing can Strengthen Education Systems” explored the growing use of outcome-based financing (OBF) as a tool to improve... Read More
Event Highlights: Challenging the Deficit Model in Education and Development
Wednesday 29 October 2025 18:30 – 20:00 CEST Hybrid: Auditorium A2, Maison de la Paix, Geneva & Online (Zoom) POSTER This event, “Challenging the Deficit Model in Education and Development” directly confronts the pervasive culture that frames the Global South as inherently lacking or “underdeveloped” compared to the Global North. For decades, development has been... Read More
30 Sep 2025
Education in Secret: How NGOs Provide Hope to Girls and Women in Afghanistan
This blogpost by Fabia Jenny about the role of NGOs in providing education to girls and women in Afghanistan is based on the author’s Master’s thesis at the Geneva Graduate Institute. The thesis won the NORRAG Prize in Comparative and International Education, an annual award presented by the NORRAG Global Education Centre and the UNESCO... Read More
Exhibition on International Cooperation in Education at the Fab in Maison de la Paix
SDG 4: Quality Education is a fundamental human right and a transformative lever for achieving all 17 Sustainable Development Goals. From eradicating poverty to advancing gender equality, from promoting climate literacy to supporting peaceful societies, education is the connective tissue of sustainable development. Cooperation is critical—internationally and in Geneva—to harnessing the potential of education to achieve the... Read More
29 Sep 2025
Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: An A-Z Guide
Development Goals, edited by Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Yi hyun Kang, Carole-Anne Sénit, Yixian Sun, provides over 100 entries which describe an important concept or term, using practical examples to illustrate how it connects to the overall debate about sustainable development. NORRAG’s Executive Director, Moira V. Faul, with Liliana Andonova and Dario Piselli, drew on... Read More
29 Sep 2025
Latest Report of Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights: Artificial Intelligence and Creativity
The latest report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural right Ms. Alexandra Xanthaki, entitled “Artificial intelligence and creativity”, is now published and available in all UN languages! The report can be accessed through this page, under the number A/80/278. It is also be available on the website of the mandate, where you will find more information... Read More
25 Sep 2025
Call for Submissions: What will Shape the Future of International Cooperation in Education?
UNESCO’s Futures of Education IdeasLAB invites short think pieces (1500 words maximum) that reimagine, interrogate and analyze recent changes in global governance, multilateralism and international cooperation in education. Global cooperation in education is at a turning point. Traditional frameworks and funding streams are under strain, while new ideas, actors, and alliances are reshaping the landscape.... Read More
25 Sep 2025
UN Progress on the Right to Free Education: A Clear Path Toward Drafting a New Treaty
In this blogpost, Bede Sheppard reports on a breakthrough UN session in early September at which governments began a process that could strengthen the right to education in international law. Momentum is mounting toward a new global treaty to strengthen every child’s right to free education. From September 1 to 3, governments gathered at the... Read More
24 Sep 2025
Event Highlights: KIX EMAP Skills-Strengthening Workshop: Implementation Research
русский I العربية On 19 and 20 June 2025, the KIX EMAP Hub, in partnership with the Building Evidence in Education (BE2) initiative, organised a workshop focused on implementation research. This was the first workshop in the new KIX EMAP Skills-Strengthening Workshop Series. The workshop received over 350 applications, with nearly 100 selected participants attending... Read More
Event Highlights: NORRAG's Exhibition at UNGA80
Tuesday 23 September 2025 Education House, New York, USA NORRAG’s exhibition on the importance of education in achieving the SDGs was launched in July in Geneva. In September, we began the exhibition’s world tour with a visit to UKFIET in Oxford, followed by at New York during UNGA week. On September 22, the exhibition was... Read More