World leaders recognized that with 100 million children out
of school, it would be impossible to achieve universal
primary education without drastic efforts. In response,
in 2002, the Education for All – Fast Track Initiative (FTI)
was created as the first ever global compact on
education, to help low-income countries achieve a free,
universal basic education by 2015.
The “compact,” based on mutual accountability, aims to
provide the incentives and resources to empower poor
nations to build and implement sound education plans.
Developing nations are responsible for taking ownership
of crafting national education plans, with budget
accountability and a greater commitment of political and
financial resources, while donor nations commit to
providing the additional technical know-how and funding
required to ensure that no nation that met its
obligations would fail for lack of resources or
technical capacity.
Through the Fast Track Initiative, all involved partner
countries and agencies coordinate at both national and
international levels to ensure greater donor
harmonization, knowledge sharing and resource
mobilization. Globally, the FTI encompasses all major
donors for education—more than 30 bilateral, regional
and international agencies and development banks.
At its inception, FTI was created as an instrument to help
low-income countries close four gaps; finance, policy,
capacity and data. In addition to increasing resources,
FTI is helping to address the other gaps through support
for the development of comprehensive sector wide
education plans and by strengthening efforts to better
track progress towards the EFA goals, including for
example primary completion rates.
Organization
The
small FTI Secretariat is housed in the
World Bank. The FTI Steering Committee is comprised of
five standing members, and three rotating members. The
five standing members are the two co-chairs, UNESCO, the
World Bank, and the most recent outgoing co-chair. The
Committee is co-chaired by two bi-lateral agencies. The
G8 president serves as one co-chair and a non-G8 country
as the other. The co-chairs provide political leadership
for the Initiative during their one year tenure, and
serve as co-conveners of the FTI annual partnership
meetings. As of January 2006, the Steering Committee has
expanded to include an additional 3 rotating members
including UNICEF, civil society and a developing country
Education Minister.
FTI Brochure:
English
(PDF - 19900 KB)
Français (PDF
- 655 KB)
FTI Fact Sheets:
FTI Presentations:
Slide Presentation
on FTI
(updated February 2007)
FTI Overview:
Examples of Progress at the Country Level
FTI
Analysis of Official Development Assistance
Visit also our
Frequently
asked questions (Français)
(Español) page
for more information on FTI.
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