Setting commitments: National SDG 4 benchmarks to transform education

 

The first edition of the new UNESCO report “Setting commitments: National SDG 4 benchmarks to transform education” was published one week after the call for global mobilization launched by Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, at the Transforming Education Pre-Summit in Paris attended by more than 150 ministers. The report describes the benchmarking process, proposes a way forward to monitor progress towards SDG 4, and presents 12 case studies that illustrate countries’ experiences in setting national benchmarks.

Stay tuned! The report will soon be updated with the latest information on setting national benchmarks

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Check out the blogs

Making commitments at the Transforming Education Summit – and following up on them
By David Sengeh, Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, Sierra Leone
Countries’ SDG 4 benchmarks forecast more than 80 million children and youth will still be out of school by 2030
By GEM Report and UNESCO Institute for Statistics
A promise kept: more than half of countries set SDG 4 national benchmarks
By Silvia Montoya, Director, UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), and Manos Antoninis, Director, Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report

Check out the progress in phase II

The second phase of the benchmarking process was initiated in February 2022 when UNESCO invited countries to engage in the process of establishing national benchmarks for selected seven benchmark indicators for 2025 and 2030 reflecting their contribution to the global progress in education.

As a result of this global mobilization, the percentage of countries that submitted national benchmarks increased from 45% in March to over 60% in May.

 

Aligning Regional Frameworks With the SDG 4 Framework

Understanding the  alignment and coherence between the global, regional and national education agendas is key to strengthen national planning and to prompt exchanges on challenges and good practices, promote mutual learning and, ultimately, lead to common actions.

A series of regional reports bridging the global SDG 4 framework with regional education monitoring frameworks have been launched, along with data tables and country profiles.

Read more about the alignment of the regional frameworks with SDG 4