BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:125@ukfiet.org DTSTART:20210318T140000Z DTEND:20210318T140000Z DTSTAMP:20210310T125114Z URL:https://www.ukfiet.org/events/beyond-business-as-usual-aid-and-financi ng-education-in-sub-saharan-africa/ SUMMARY:Beyond business as usual: Aid and financing education in Sub-Sahara n Africa DESCRIPTION:WEBINAR: International Journal of Educational Development\nBeyo nd business as usual: Aid and financing education in Sub-Saharan Africa\n( IJED Volume 78\, October 2020\, 102247)\nKeith M Lewin\nDATE: Thursday 18 th March\,2021\nTIME: 14.00 UTC\nREGISTER HERE\nSince the 1990 World Confe rence on Education for All in Jomtien\, well over half a trillion dollars has been disbursed as aid to education\, much of it targeted on low-income countries. Some of the recipients have transformed their education financ e systems and have developed into bona fide fiscal states able to support their recurrent and capital spending on education from domestic revenue. B ut many low income countries have not made this transition successfully an d remain dependent on successive waves of external assistance to reduce th eir financing gaps.\nThe status quo is no longer a viable way forward. Gra nt aid is unlikely to grow as the Covid-related recession supresses donor spending. Concessional lending to countries with sub-prime credit ratings and high debt service ratios looks imprudent. The size of the shortfall in funding to achieve SDG4 is now so large that no feasible amount of extern al assistance could fill it\, nor could it be relied on to pay recurrent c osts including teachers’ salaries into the future. If the amounts needed were deployed from global agencies it would generate unprecedented levels of dependence in those countries receiving most assistance.  \nThis webi nar is based on Keith Lewin’s 2020 paper in the International Journal of Educational Development “Beyond business as usual: aid and financing ed ucation in Sub-Saharan Africa :\n(Available free at https://www.sciencedir ect.com/science/article/pii/S0738059320304065)\nThis webinar is part of a series of invited papers which explores key issues for development. The fi rst paper in the series by Nicholas Burnett argued that the international architecture for education is failing to meet the needs of low income coun tries and that it was hypocritical for development partners to call for sy stemic reforms to education within countries at the same time as neglectin g their own broken system. Burnett’s paper is titled: “Invited Essay: It’s Past Time to Fix the Broken International Architecture for Educatio n\,” IJED\, Vol. 68 (July\, 2019) pp. 15-19\n(Available free at:  https ://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738059319303633)\nKeith Lew in’s paper is the second in the series. In it Keith develops the case th at external assistance to education must repurpose itself to suit new circ umstances. The purposes must shift towards accelerating development withou t creating dependence. The modalities should focus on catalytic investment s designed to enhance efficiency and effectiveness that can yield benefits that are sustainable into the indefinite future. This is an alternative t o using financing to support discrete projects and address single issues. These may fill some gaps temporarily but do not do so sustainably. Nor can they be on a scale that is large enough to resolve global crises in acces s and learning. \nThe learning crisis is at heart also a financing crisis . Ways must be found to escape from the low financing traps that have pers isted despite hundreds of billions of dollars in assistance. The exit rout e has to lead to the development of fiscal states that can avoid an “inf inite do-loop” of using aid to fill and refill financial gaps rather tha n addressing their underlying causes. Simply persisting with the same kind of development financing  as in the past will be no more successful in p romoting sustainable development than it has been since the 1990s. It is t ime to try something else. \nAbout the speakers:\nKeith Lewin\nKeith Lewi n is the Emeritus Professor of International Development and Education at the University of Sussex. He has coordinated numerous multi-country resear ch projects on educational planning and finance\, science education\, teac her education\, and aid to education. He was director of the UK DFID-funde d Research Centre on Educational Access and Equity\, and has acte4d as a r esearch advisor to the World Bank\, African Development Bank and the Gover nment of India’s RMSA program. His publications include more than 200 jo urnal articles\, technical reports and books. He was the founding Director of the Sussex international master’s program\, is a fellow of the UK Ac ademy of Social Sciences\, a Chartered Physicist\, and was chair of UKFIET until 2020. His website is www.keithlewin.net.\n \;\nNicholas Burnet t\nNicholas Burnett is a Senior Fellow at Results for Development (R4D)\, chairs the Board of UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Plann ing\, and is a visiting professor at Nottingham and Kobe universities.  H e was previously founding Managing Director for Global Education at R4D\, Assistant Director-General for Education at UNESCO\, Director of the Educa tion for All Global Monitoring Report\, and Human Development Manager for West and Central Africa at the World Bank.  He was educated as an economi st at Oxford\, Harvard and the Johns Hopkins universities. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ukfiet.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/0 1/IJED.jpg CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR