SC’s Focus on Education9th CSO Forum in Dakar (Senegal), 2-

4th April 2014

Vision, mission and valuesOUR VISION is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.

OUR MISSION is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

OUR VALUESACCOUNTABILITY – AMBITION – COLLABORATION – CREATIVITY – INTEGRITY

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Where we work

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Core areas for SC globally

• Child rights governance• Child protection• Education• Health and nutrition• Livelihoods• Humanitarian

Every child receives a good quality education and learns the skills and knowledge they need to thrive in the 21st century.This is the right of every child, irrespective of their gender, ethnicity, social class or income, or whether they live in conflict zones or fragile states.

our vision in education

All children can read by the time they leave primary school; and

Children caught up in humanitarian crises have access to quality education.

SC’s breakthrough in education

Strategic objectives in education1. Basic Education2. Education in Emergencies3. Early Childhood Care and

Development 4. Education for Youth

Empowerment 5. Driving Global and National

Policy Change

Education Global Initiative

• Each of the SC’s areas of focus has a global initiative – for collaboration and synergy

• The Education Global Initiative is a framework which enables members, regions and countries (and our partners) to come together to discuss and decide on what we want to achieve with our education programmes as well as how we are going to do it.

Theory of Change – what we aim at:

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Links to the Forum theme• Education is a key right for children• Barriers to free, mandatory and adapted quality

education persist – mainly learning inequality• This right relates to other rights in a complex

manner – survival, protection & participation• State parties need to ratify, report and implement

the ACRWC and related education frameworks• Role of CSOs in working with state parties• The way we treat children reflects on us • Africa post-2015 - learning and equity

Our direction to 2030Goal: By 2030 we will ensure children everywhere receive quality education and have good learning outcomes

Targets • Ensure that girls and boys everywhere are achieving good learning

outcomes by the age of 12 with gaps between the poorest and the richest significantly reduced.

• Ensure that the poorest young children will be starting school ready to learn, with good levels of child development.

• Ensure that young people everywhere have basic literacy and numeracy, technical and life skills to become active citizens with decent employment.

Let’s be ambitious with children thro’ education!