EFA: An Opportunity
for Canada to Lead

The Education for All goals are widely supported by governments and organizations around the world. What we need now is for our leaders to demonstrate the political will to follow through on their commitments.


Time to Finish What We've Started!

Canada has long been an advocate for Education for All, and has made great strides in increasing its aid to education budget since 2000. Now it is time for the government to finish what it started by:

  1. Contributing Canada’s fair share ($549.7 million annually until 2015) to meet it’s commitment to achieving the Education for All goals, while setting out a ten-year timetable to increase Canadian foreign aid to 0.7% of Gross National Income.
  2. Increasing Canadian funding to the full Education for All agenda, particularly in countries where quality education is the lowest and including those affected by conflict and emergencies.
  3. Developing an education sector aid policy which includes leading innovative efforts to support the participation of civil society organizations (in the North and South) in the development, monitoring and implementation of education sector policy and plans.
  4. Ensuring education funding is long-term, stable and predictable through programme and budget support.
  5. Making sure its aid programmes support the achievement of full gender equality in education.


The 2010 G8: An Opportunity for Canada to Show Leadership

As the host of the 2010 G8 Summit in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada has a unique opportunity to create a lasting legacy by placing Education for All as a key priority for the G8.

Specifically, CGCE calls upon Canada to lead the G8 in:

  1. Keeping its promises to provide its fair share of the estimated annual $16 billion annual funding required to reach the Education for All goals by 2015.
  2. Creating a plan for meeting the Millennium Development Goals, including those related to education and literacy, and the full EFA agenda, while prioritizing support for emerging and conflict-affected states, girls and the most marginalized populations.
  3. Reforming the international aid architecture in keeping with the principles of aid effectiveness to ensure the timely and efficient disbursement of international funds and the participation civil society in education planning, governance, implementation and evaluation.