Six Sahelian nations on Monday pledged to draw on their own resources to improve education, and urged international donors to follow-up with assistance that would give them greater independence in implementing their programmes.
Officials agreed to commit half of their education budgets to primary education, and to set aside 4 percent of gross domestic product and contribute 40 percent of debt relief savings to education.
“The heads of state have made some very strong commitments,” Ouane Adama, director of UNESCO’s institute for education in Hamburg, Germany, told IRIN on Tuesday. “We have a chance now to make a breakthrough.”
[See separate item titled ‘WEST AFRICA: Sahelian countries adopt education strategy’]
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