Presentation to the World Bank Spring Meeting 2018 event on accountability in education: http://bit.ly/2o5yAZy More information on: http://bit.ly/2vZq6fE

1. Building rights-driven
accountability to improve
education
WORLD BANK SPRING MEETINGS 2018
SYLVAIN AUBRY SYLVAIN@GLOBALINIATIVE-ESCR.ORG
@SAUBRYHR

3. 3 pillars to face education challenges
1.Increased financing – domestic financing
2.Improved accountability where necessary
3.Public institutions’ building

4. Database of community-led accountability projects

5. Lessons learned
Positive
 Inexpensive
 Can improve learning outcomes and other measures of quality
 Increase fnancial transparency and accountability and reduce corruption
Limitations
 Sustainability
 Risk of elite capture (socio-economic, ethic, gender…), effect for the poorest
 Need structural capacities
But… measuring the right effect?

6. Human rights law matters
International Covenant on Economic,
Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
International Convention on the
Rights of the Child (CRC)
196 States parties164 States parties

7. Rights-driven approach to
accountability
 Relationship between rights-holders and duty bearers
 Holding the State accountable, not only schools but also macro level
 Building trust and mechanisms not suspicion
 Assessing against human rights obligations, defined by the law, not particular views – in the
context of the respect of all human rights obligations (including non-discrimination and
equality), reinforcing the rule of law
 States report, explain and justify how they are fulfilling their obligations
 Corrective/Retrospect: Take action, redress mechanisms
 Preventive/Prospect: empowerment of people, groups and institutions through a strengthening of
citizen’s participation in the different stages of policy-making: design, implementation and evaluation.
Purpose: build trust in order to facilitate the realisation of the right to education/fairness

9. Per year
• 2400 USD per county
• 112,800 USD for all counties
• 200,000 USD per country
• 13M USD for all 65 GPE countries

11. Human Rights
Guiding
Principles

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