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Press Releases/Press Clippings
FTI  Newsletter
Press Releases/Press Clippings
January 30, 2007 the Spanish Cooperation bets on meeting the Millennium objectives for Education
Press release
January 24, 2007 Update on FTI Activities since Cairo - En Français
Note from Desmond Bermingham, Head of FTI Secretariat
January 23, 2007 Liberia: Squeezing in an Education
E-article from IRIN NEWS
January 19, 2007 United Kingdom pledges £200 million to India's education
Article from the Guardian Unlimited
January 9, 2007 Steep Increase in Dutch Support to FTI
January 4,2007 Gordon Brown calls for free education for all children in 2007
Editorial in The Guardian
January 2, 2007 Kenya: Free Primary Education Weakened Primary Schools
Article from AllAfrica.com
December 22, 2006 The Netherlands will support education in emergency countries
Press release
December 18, 2006 Hewlett and Gates foundations  team up to improve education quality in developing countries
Press release
December 15, 2006 Lesotho Edging towards Education MDGs
Article from IPS News Agency
April 10, 2006 UK Government announces $15 billion for basic education including the Fast Track Initiative
DfID Education Pamphlet 
March 14, 2006 Major Donors for Education Gather in Moscow to Assess Progress Toward the Millennium Development Goal of Universal Primary Education by 2015
January 4, 2006 UK Chancellor of the Exchequer asks for free Education for All by 2007 - Editorial from The Independent
December 22, 2005 Call for U.S. Presidential Initiative on Basic Education in Developing Countries by a group of 56 international and national civil society groups
November 11, 2005 Literacy for Life: 2006 EFA Global Monitoring Report is launched
November 10, 2005 Kenya receives Catalytic Fund Grant of $24.2 million
Press Release
Press clips from various news sources
September 15, 2005 Final Declaration from UN Millennium Summit says: "We also commit ourselves to continuing to support the efforts of developing countries in the implementation of the Education for All initiative, including with enhanced resources of all types through the Education for All fast-track initiative in support of countryled national education plans."
September 13, 2005 Extra Funding for Global Education Drive - The Guardian
UK donates £40 million to the FTI
September 12, 2005 DfID Press Release: Extra £40 million for Education in Developing Countries
June 3, 2005 How Investing in Education Boosts Development

in "Finance & Development" - Quarterly Magazine of the IMF

includes the article "Designing a Global Compact on Education" by Gene Sperling and Rekha Balu of the Council on Foreign Relations

April 18, 2005 EFA FTI - Media summary from 2005 Spring Meetings
April 17, 2005 President Wolfensohn hosts FTI press briefing during WB/IMF Spring Meetings
Transcript
Press Release
Feb. 23, 2005 More Money for Poor countries (IDA 14 replenishment)
May 11, 2004 FTI Secretariat Statement to the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank
Apr 25-27, 2004 EFA FTI - Media Summary from 2004 Spring Meetings
Apr. 25, 2004 Development Committee Communiqué 
 
FTI  Newsletter
Nov. 2006 - Feb. 2007 Cairo Meeting - Newly endorsed countries - Update on CF and EPDF - EFA FTI events in Spain and Austria - Joint review missions - Calendar of upcoming events
January-April 2006 World Bank Spring Meetings - Donor Focus: the United Kingdom & the Netherlands - Development Committee Communiqué - Moscow Donors Meeting - Update on FTI - New Head of FTI Secretariat - Steering Committee Expands - Basic Update FTI Today - Calendar
October-December 2005 FTI Annual Partnership Meeting - UNESCO High Level Group Meeting - Other Beijing Meetings - FTI & Expansion - FTI Calalytic Fund Allocations 2006/7 - FTI launches search for new Head of Secretariat - Country Focus: Kenya and Madagascar - Other news - Defining the Capacity Gaps - Calendar 2006
The newsletter is also available in French:  La Lettre d'Information
July-Sept. 2005
 
UK announces £40 million for FTI - UN Millennium Summit outcome and G8 communiqué support FTI - Kenya joins FTI - Catalytic Fund update - WB Africa Action Plan - Burkina Faso gets grant from MCC - In the News - Girls' education reports - Useful Toolkits - Upcoming events
The newsletter is also available in French:  La Lettre d'Information
June 2005 FTI in the news - G8 cancel debt of 18 countries - FTI Catalytic Fund update - FTI working groups updte - USAID new education strategies - Training Events
March-May 2005 FTI in the news - Harmonization (Yemen - HLF on Aid effectiveness - New fact sheet - OECD guidelines on aid effectiveness) - Donor updates (EU - Belgium - Canada - France - UK - IDA 14 - Netherlands - Norway - Sweden - Finland - Denmark) - Upcoming events
Feb 2005 Catalytic Fund update - Millennium Project report - WB report on global programs - Meetings - Donor updates (France, Canada, EC, USA) - Pôle de Dakar Newsletter - LENPA
Jan 2005 UK becomes FTI co-chair - Revised assessment guidelines - EPDF - Upcoming events
Dec 2004 4th FTI Partnership meeting in Brasilia - FTI and resource mobilization
Aug-Oct 2004 Brasilia meetings - New Secretariat staff - FTI Catalytic Fund - Donor updates - Country news (Nicaragua, Yemen)
Jun 2004 Change in FTI co-chair - July Steering Committee Meeting - New head of AFD human development division - Working groups update - Secretariat recruitments - Working groups participants
May 2004 World Bank Executive Directors request briefing on FTI - UK and France support FTI Secretariat - Secretariat Recruitments - Simplified disbursements for FTI Catalytic Fund - Country News (Pakistan, Ghana, Niger, Ethiopia, East Timor) - USA selects 16 countries for MCA - FTI website - FTI Documents in French -  Working groups participants