1 EDUCATION-2014/02/24 THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION NEW IDEAS TO SCALE UP AND FINANCE GLOBAL EDUCATION Monday, February 24, 2014 WHAT’S NEW IN GLOBAL EDUCATION? Featured Speaker: THE HONORABLE JULIA GILLARD Former Prime Minister of Australia Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution Moderator: REBECCA WINTHROP Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Universal Education The Brookings Institution PANEL 1 - HOW TO SCALE UP AND FINANCE LEARNING: Moderator: HOMI KHARAS Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Global Economy and Development The Brookings Institution Panelists: CLAUDIA COSTIN Secretary of Education Municipality of Rio de Janeiro ZBIGNIEW MARCINIAK Former Undersecretary of State Ministry of Education, Poland Professor, Institute of Mathematics University of Warsaw SHANNON MAY Co-Founder Bridge International Academies CHARLES AHETO-TSEGAH Deputy Director-General Ghana Education Service PANEL 2 - BETTER ALLOCATING FINANCES TO REACH THE MARGINALIZED Featured Speaker: THE HONORABLE JULIA GILLARD ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 2 EDUCATION-2014/02/24 Former Prime Minister of Australia Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution Moderator: LIESBET STEER Fellow The Brookings Institution Panelists: THE HONORABLE JULIA GILLARD Former Prime Minister of Australia Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution DANIEL NKAADA Basic Education Commissioner Ministry of Education, Uganda HARRY PATRINOS Sector Manager, Human Development Network The World Bank FAZLE RABBANI Education Advisor U.K. Department for International Development PANEL 3 - INNOVATIVE FINANCING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SCALING EDUCATION Featured Speaker: PHILIPPE DOUSTE-BLAZY Former Foreign Minister of France Special Advisor to the Secretary General for Innovative Finance for Development United Nations Moderator: TAMAR ATINC Visiting Fellow The Brookings Institution Panelists: NICK BURNETT Managing Director Results for Development Institute PHILIPPE DOUSTE-BLAZY Former Foreign Minister of France Special Advisor to the Secretary General for Innovative Finance for Development United Nations ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 3 EDUCATION-2014/02/24 ROBERT FILIPP Founder Innovative Finance Foundation AMIE PATEL Director of Global Development Imprint Capital Advisors PANEL 4 - IMPROVING INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR EDUCATION Moderator: GEORGE INGRAM Senior Fellow The Brookings Institution Panelists: ALICE ALBRIGHT Chief Executive Officer Global Partnership for Education MANOS ANTONINIS Acting Director EFA Global Monitoring Report DESMOND BERMINGHAM Director, Education Global Initiative Save the Children ANNA FRENCH Head of Education U.K. Department for International Development * * * * * ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 4 EDUCATION-2014/02/24 P R O C E E D I N G S MS. WINTHROP: For those standing in the back -- I see you, Gabriel; I see you, others -- there are a few seats over here. You’ll be able to sneak out. It’s okay. We won’t chain you if you come to the front. (Laughter) So, please do come down. There’s, like, a little cluster of four or five seats over here and a couple over here, so you don’t have to stand. Thank you so much, all of you, for coming. I’m Rebecca Winthrop. I’m the director here of the Center for Universal Education. It’s a real pleasure to be here with all of you, and we’re pleased -- we do an annual education symposium. Well, “annual” -- this is the second time we’ve done it. It’s becoming annual. And we will definitely do one next year, and we welcome any feedback, ideas, suggestions for next year, what you liked about this or didn’t like about today’s symposium. So, the theme of the symposium this year is around scaling up and, in particular, the role of financing and scaling up, and the inspiration for picking this topic this year really came out of conversations within the team, thinking very seriously about inequality. The Secretary-General’s high-level panel on Post-2015 had an incredibly important statement around equity, how this is a central issue for development in the next decades to come. Many thanks, Homi, for coining the term “to leave no one behind.” So, for us what does that really mean, to leave no one behind in education? If we’re really going to be able to leave no one behind, how are we going to have to do things differently? How are we really going to have to scale up education services and interventions to reach those that are marginalized, that are not accessing education? And it certainly means not only just accessing education but making sure that people get access to a good enough education that they’re actually developing their skills and competencies to the best of their abilities. So, that is the inspiration for the topic, and we thought we would focus on financing, because of course financing is a crucial, necessary but not sufficient criteria for ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 5 EDUCATION-2014/02/24 scaling up, and at this moment in time education financing is in a very worrisome state. We just ran some of the numbers, and although I had thought from this past year tracking reports and stuff that international aid, ODA -- Overseas Development Assistance -- is kind of going down. If you look at it from 2009 through 2012, although there are dips and peaks along the way, it’s actually trending up. So, aid is trending up over the last several years. However, education aid has been trending down. So, while overall the pool of assistance is going up, education aid is falling, and aid -- and this is to me one of the most worrisome parts -- aid to basic education in the lowest income countries is falling the fastest, which, frankly, seems opposite of what it should be. You really should have aid to low-income countries being sort of the bulk of where you put your resources, one would imagine at least. So, that’s one of the reasons why we wanted to focus on financing, in particular as a piece part, a scaling. In addition, it’s a good moment in time. You know, we have to think very significantly about what resources we’re putting behind education to try to meet the last two years, to try to meet the MDGs and what sort of resources we need to hopefully scale up an ambitious post-2015 agenda around access and learning. And we also have a moment in time that is around the GPE replenishment, which is starting, which maybe we’ll hear more about from Julia in a moment. And we wanted to bring together some of the conversations around education financing that happened to be taking place in different corners of the globe -- well, maybe not globe but it seems to be different people, different working groups, different conversations. So, questions around international aid and assistance, absolutely, but also questions around countries’ own use of their education resources, so domestic budgets, what’s happening there with countries’ own resources. And then, third, innovative finance -- lots of discussions around how the education sector can do a better job to attract different sources of finance, different finance models. So, we thought we would have a day where we put all three of those ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 6 EDUCATION-2014/02/24 different dialogues in conversation with each other and look at education resources in toto, so to speak, and certainly with a very close eye not only to more money but better used -- how to both grow the pot and better use existing resources and of course new resources. So, that’s the goal of the day. At the end I will lay out sort of what the schedule is and make a few announcements. But now I would like to turn over to Julia, and I think all of you well know who she is. You have her full bio in the program. But, if I may, I would like to say just a few words of introduction. Julia Gillard, former Prime Minister of Australia, has spent a long time in political life starting in the House of Representatives in the late 1990s and taking on various roles including, importantly for us, Minister of Education of Australia as well as Minister of Employment and Workforce Relations and Social Inclusion, so a wide range of experience -- deputy prime minister, as well. And then, importantly also for us, is the very important education reforms that enjoy very broad bipartisan support in Australia that she championed while prime minister, something that I think we Americans are very jealous of, particularly the bipartisan part. And also one of the things that I always tell her was my favorite speech of hers was she joined when the U.N. Secretary-General announced his global education first initiative, he asked ten countries to champion it. I think he asked, maybe, more; some said no. But Australia said yes, under Julia’s leadership, and she gave an incredible speech on the floor of the General Assembly about the role of global education and what countries can do and how we have to move forward. So, anyway, we’re very, very pleased to have you. You are with us now at the Center for Universal Education as a Senior Fellow, and you joined after you left your presidency, and now you are also newly appointed chair of the Global Partnership for Education. So, I guess my very first question is why did you choose global ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 7 EDUCATION-2014/02/24 education? (Laughter) Why us? We’re very pleased, but what inspired you? MS.