SDG 4 Scorecard progress report on national benchmarks: focus on teachers
The SDG 4 Scorecard shows countries’ efforts towards achieving their 2025 and 2030 national benchmarks, which represent their intended contributions to the achievement of SDG 4. Progress towards national targets is insufficient: countries are making good progress in Internet connectivity at school and teacher qualifications, but progress on the 6 other benchmark indicators is not on course.
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‘National SDG 4 Benchmarks and the SDG 4 Scorecard’
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SDG 4 scorecard: progress report on national benchmarks on school internet connectivity
This brochure presents a summary of the findings from the second global assessment of progress towards the eighth benchmark indicator which corresponds to SDG global indicator 4.a.1 and was introduced after the Transforming Education Summit: school internet connectivity.
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SDG 4 Scorecard progress report on national benchmarks in Africa
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The SDG 4 Scorecard for Africa is a summary of the findings from the 2nd global assessment of country progress towards benchmarks since 2015. Overall, 72% of African countries have set national SDG 4 benchmarks for at least one indicator.
SDG 4 Scorecard progress report on national benchmarks in the Commonwealth
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This brochure presents a summary of the findings from the second global assessment of progress towards the benchmarks among the Commonwealth countries since 2015. Overall, 84% of Commonwealth countries have set national SDG 4 benchmarks for at least one indicator.
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SDG 4 Scorecard progress report on national benchmarks in Asia and the Pacific
This brochure presents a summary for Asia and the Pacific of the findings from the second global assessment of country progress towards the benchmarks. In addition, it presents country progress towards the benchmarks set at the sub-regional level.
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SDG 4 Scorecard progress report on national benchmarks: Focus on early childhood
The report SDG 4 Scorecard Progress Report on National Benchmarks: Focus on Early Childhood provides the first annual snapshot of countries’ progress towards their national education benchmarks, with a focus on the participation rate in organized learning one year before primary.
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Setting Commitments: National SDG 4 benchmarks to transform education
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The report, Setting Commitments: National SDG 4 Benchmarks to Transform Education is the largest ever exercise to determine realistic educations ambitions for 2030. It compiles the findings from the culmination of a five-year process that has enabled countries to set their own targets towards achieving “universal access to quality education”
Meeting Commitments. Are Countries on Track to Achieve SDG 4?
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The report Meeting Commitments. Are Countries on Track to Achieve SDG 4? for the 2019 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development captures concisely how far the world is from achieving its education targets.
SDG 4 Benchmarks Database Integration
SDG 4 Benchmarks Database Integration
‘SDG 4 Benchmarks Database Integration’ was prepared by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics to present the methodology followed in assembling the benchmarks database. The document describes the different phases of the benchmarking process and explains how countries’ submissions were managed upon reception. It also describes the results and outstanding issues associated with benchmarks derived from National Education Sector Plans and Voluntary National Reviews, and ends with a section on the management of the benchmarks database.
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We need to transform education for this generation to be prepared for the future
By Silvia Montoya, Director, UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), and Manos Antoninis, Director, Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report
A call to action on the follow-up of the Transforming Education Summit commitments
By GEM Report
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
What are the national SDG 4 benchmarks?
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
Regional processes
Each region has its own framework to set, monitor and report on the benchmarks to achieve the SDG 4: