It is an occasion at which we seek a global consensus to mobilise resources and political will to promote the survival and health of every child, to assure the right of basic quality education, assistance in combatting HIV/AIDS - and protection from harm and exploitation.
"Fortunately this new government started with some emphasis on restructuring the basic education sector with assistance from partners including UNICEF, USAID".
The organization has a particular focus on helping girls finish basic education, providing them with financial assistance and tutors.
Its 1996 allocation of $79 million in worldwide assistance for basic education accounted for 12 per cent of the agency's overall programme expenditure.
During his tenure, he authored legislation that supported food aid, child survival, basic education, primary health care, micro-enterprise, and development assistance in the world's poorest countries.
Refugee children have a right to protection and assistance, including the right to a basic education, as stated by the 1951 UN Refugee Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (United High Commissioner for Refugees 1951).
There is an annual funding gap of $26 billion for the provision of universal basic education in 46 low-income countries, and since 2009 official development assistance to education has decreased by 10 per cent.
Author: Freeman, T.; Dohoo Faure, S. Background: In the sequels to the World Education Forum held in Dakar in April 2000, a Consultative Group of Evaluation Departments, representing thirteen international and national funding and technical assistance agencies, agreed to undertake a joint evaluation of external support to basic education in developing countries.
"Offering children free basic education, giving them safe and viable options for earning a living, and providing families with financial and other assistance can mean that many orphans who might otherwise be separated from their families are able to remain with them," Bellamy said.
We couldn't get a basic education.
