SDG 4 Scorecard progress report on national benchmarks: Focus on early childhood
The report 2023 SDG 4 Scorecard 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.
More information on benchmarks and the SDG 4 Scorecard report here.
Setting Commitments: National SDG 4 benchmarks to transform education
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?
This joint publication Meeting Commitments. Are Countries on Track to Achieve SDG 4? by the UIS and the Global Education Monitoring Report
(GEMR) for the 2019 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development captures concisely how far the world is from achieving its education targets.
SDG 4 Data Digests
The 2021 edition of the SDG 4 Data Digest, National SDG 4 Benchmarks: Fulfilling Our Neglected Commitment by the UIS and the Global Education Monitoring Report (GEMR) presents the idea behind benchmark setting in education and the steps taken since 2017 to fulfil this commitment, including the selection of SDG 4 benchmark indicators.
It also reviews what these benchmark values mean for the probability of achieving SDG 4 by 2030. The discussion serves as a stark reminder to all parties of the importance of setting national education targets and of properly financing them, particularly in the face of the difficulties brought upon the sector by COVID-19.
Summaries (French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic)
Quick Guide to Education Indicators for SDG 4
This Quick Guide to Education Indicators for SDG 4 serves as a quick reference on how to monitor progress towards SDG 4 on quality education.
It provides basic explanations of SDG 4 targets, their indicators, how they are
created and where to find the information needed for these indicators.
Efficiency and Effectiveness in Choosing and Using EMIS
This Quick Guide to Education Indicators for SDG 4 serves as a quick reference on how to monitor progress towards SDG 4 on quality education.
This aim of this report is to assist countries to make a more informed choice in relation to EMIS by developing a set of standards to illustrate what an EMIS must be able to do, in order to supply accurate, valid information to education sector policymakers and school managers and international organizations to whom most countries owe reporting.
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