What comes after the Transforming Education Summit?

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2022 - 10 - 14

“If you are serious about creating a safe and sustainable future for children then be serious about education” - Malala Yousafzai, UN Messenger of Peace and Nobel Prize Laureate, at the Transforming Education Summit.

On 19 September, Heads of State from around the world came together to talk about education. The United Nations’ Transforming Education Summit (TES) was held in New York, and mobilised the necessary political action to achieve inclusive and equitable quality public education for all.

The Transforming Education Summit aimed to mobilize solutions to accelerate national and global efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4: "Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all."

• Seven new Global Initiatives launched at the Summit will focus on such solutions to transform education:

1. Greening Education to get every learner climate-ready;

2. Connecting every child and young person to digital solutions;

3. Addressing the crisis in foundational learning among young learners;

4. Transforming education systems to enable all crisis-affected children and youth to access inclusive, quality, safe learning opportunities and continuity of education;

5. Advancing gender equality and girls’ and women’s empowerment;

6. Transforming the financing of education by investing more, more equitably, more efficiently, more innovatively;

7. Empowering young people to be effective leaders in reshaping education.

• Six calls to action have been announced during the Summit.

• The International Financing Facility for Education has been launched and will enhance funding for education around the world.

• The Gateways to Public Digital Learning constitutes another new initiative, which will bring partners together to ensure equitable access to and resources for digital learning.

Now that the Transforming Education Summit is over, the real work begins. The SDG 4 High-Level Steering Committee, the apex body of the Global Education Cooperation Mechanism, will play a key role in following up on the Summit outcomes, monitoring progress, engaging youth, and championing cross-sector and multilateral cooperation. The TES Knowledge Hub will be the space for knowledge and practice exchange.

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