08 Sep 2025
AFD, GPE, IIEP Workshop. 2005 – 2025: Two Decades of Aid Effectiveness in Education
Policy Brief from IIEP, AFD and GPE: Renewing the Promise of Development Effectiveness for Transforming Education READ MORE Investment in education, in terms of both quantity and quality, must be put back at the heart of national and international priorities. Since 2005, the share of international aid allocated to education has dropped sharply, falling below... Read More
04 Sep 2025
Pathways for Embedding Social Emotional Learning Into Climate Justice Education and Education for Sustainable Development
In this blogpost, Camilla Hadi Chaudhary and Radhika Iyengar, with inputs from Baela Jamil, from the Dil se Dharti Group (Hindi/Urdu: “Earth from the Heart”), highlight ideas emanating from a series of discussions amongst a group of academics, researchers, practitioners and activists in the fields of education and climate from South Asia on how climate... Read More
03 Sep 2025
GPE KIX Research - Informing Bhutan’s EMIS Revamp: The MIEMIS Project’s Contributions
The MIEMIS Project has made strong progress in strengthening Bhutan’s Education Management Information System (EMIS) and Motherboard. Four situational study reports provided critical findings that guided scaling activities and deepened collaboration with stakeholders. Enabling Environment for EMIS in Bhutan, Situational Analysis Study Report System Soundness of EMIS in Bhutan, Situational Analysis Report Quality Data of... Read More
28 Aug 2025
A Shared Roadmap for Education: Five Proposals for Latin America and the Caribbean
In this blogpost, which is part of NORRAG’s blog series on “Financing Education”, Mariana Huepe outlines the inter-agency agreement—uniting UN agencies, development banks, and civil society—on key proposals to improve education financing. Education is both a fundamental human right and a strategic investment for development. It underpins the exercise of other rights and is a... Read More
Event Highlights: World Summit on Teachers
On August 28 and 29, 2025, Moira Faul, Executive Director of NORRAG, participated in the World Summit on Teachers held in Santiago, Chile. The Santiago Consensus represents a significant step in advancing the recommendations made by the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession. It builds upon UNESCO’s guidance to strengthen teacher-related policies... Read More
26 Aug 2025
Event Highlights: Launch of the Arabic Edition of NORRAG Special Issue 09 “Fundamental Learning: Reflections and Practices”
العربية The Arabic Edition of NSI 09 “Fundamental Learning: Reflections and Practices” was launched online on Thursday 12th of June 2025. It included three articles written by authors located in Algeria and United Arab Emirates in addition to translations of 12 articles from the original English NSI 09. Rasha Sharaf, regional editor of NSI Arabic... Read More
Event Highlights: UNESCO Chair Book Talk: Time in Education Policy Transfer
Monday 15 September 2025 4 to 5.15 pm CEST / 10 to 11.15 am EST Hybrid: 285 Grace Dodge Hall, TC College, New York (USA), and Online (Zoom) This event was organised in partnership with Teachers College, Columbia University, the KIX EMAP Hub and the UNESCO Chair in Comparative Education Policy. POSTER ACCESS THE BOOK... Read More
Event Highlights: UKFIET 2025
Dates: 16 to 18 September 2025 Location: Oxford, UK Relational Ecologies of Knowledge and Practice: a Workshop of the Epistemic Justice Network Innovations in Multilingual Education forSustainable Futures Funding the Future: How Outcome-Based Financing can Strengthen Education Systems NORRAG at the UKFIET Conference 2025 NORRAG participated in the UKFIET 2025 conference in Oxford, held under... Read More
Event Highlights: Adolescencias en el Centro: hacia Políticas Públicas Integrales en América Latina
Español Abajo Adolescents at the Centre: towards Comprehensive Public Policies in Latin America The regional webinar titled “Adolescents at the Centre: Towards Comprehensive Public Policies in Latin America,” organised by NORRAG and ECLAC on 27 August 2025, was part of a series of regional activities carried out under the partnership between the two institutions. This... Read More
19 Aug 2025
Call for Submissions: IBBY-UNESCO Collection of Remarkable Books for Young Readers in Indigenous and Endangered Languages
UNESCO and IBBY are joining efforts to raise awareness among the young generations on the importance of linguistic diversity. As the lead UN agency coordinating the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032 (IDIL 2022-2032), UNESCO—working closely with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)—is committed to addressing the critical state of many Indigenous... Read More