Publications

This is the first attempt to assess progress towards the 2025 and 2030 benchmarks, or national targets, that countries set over the past 18 months on seven SDG 4 indicators, in fulfilment of a commitment they made in 2015. The assessment covers the period...

Decrypting national education expenditure is the key to targeted spending Spending on education has been earmarked in the Education 2030 Agenda – Sustainable Development Goal 4 to receive at least 4% of GDP and/or 15% of national expenditure on public...

After the declaration of the Incheon Framework for Action at the World Education Forum on 21 May 2015, numerous countries implemented Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 agenda into their national education policy framework, integrating SDG 4 targets into...

Country’s options for indicator 4.1.1: Document prepared for the 38th Annual Conference for Educational Assessment in Africa (AEAA), Livingstone, Zambia, August 2022 Reporting on learning outcomes is critically important but challenging, as there is no...

Despite significant progress in expanding equitable access to quality education and improved learning outcomes, evidence shows that most countries in the Asia-Pacific region will struggle to achieve many targets of SDG 4 by 2030. The COVID-19 pandemic has...