Iraq : UN calls for more financial resources to support education in Iraq

Iraq : UN calls for more financial resources to support education in Iraq
(This Article Headlined 21/4/10)
BAGHDAD - morning
The United Nations called for more spending and provide additional sources of funding to provide education for all in Iraq. In a statement issued by the United Nations on the occasion of Global Action Week for Education, which began Monday and runs until 23 April, the current «financing quality education as a right for all».

According to the Global Monitoring Report on EFA in 2010, Iraq is still left behind compared to most countries in the region. As a result of decades of conflict and sanctions, it has decreased the quality of formal education and access to it, including a negative impact on enrollment rates at all levels of education. The report said that primary education enrollment rates fell from 91 percent in 1990 to 85 percent in 2007. Has resulted in a decline in the education system to the high school dropout rates, and it remains the question of illiteracy is a source of concern with a national rate of literacy is nearly 80 percent among children aged 10 years and above. The affected women in particular the phenomenon of illiteracy, especially in rural areas. For example, available information indicates that about 50 percent of women aged between 15 and 24 years who live in rural areas find reading and writing, compared with 72 - 80 percent of women living in urban areas and major cities, respectively., "Said Christine McNab, United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq: «Iraq faces significant challenges to improve access to education and ensure that girls and boys have equal opportunities», and added: «There is a need for more financial resources to ensure the government the constitutional right to education, including early childhood care and education in public schools, literacy and life skills for youth and adults in Iraq. Years will be the next crucial, for it will determine whether Iraq will be able to achieve the goals envisaged within the six goals of Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals. »But the statement acknowledged that the Iraqi government put education in the hierarchy of priorities raised the proportion of the budget from 7.2 in 2008 to 9.9 percent in 2009, total government spending, however, should make great efforts to achieve the 2015 goal to reach the net primary enrollment ratio 100 percent, especially in rural areas and in accordance with the goals of Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals aimed at providing primary education for all. Will be sustained investment in education is essential to achieving the rest of the Millennium Development Goals as they may improve the education of health, and promotes environmental sustainability, it can also help to eradicate poverty and hunger. The statement noted that UNESCO celebrates Global Action Week for Education through the organization of a number of events in all parts of Iraq in cooperation with the Ministry of Education. Participating network of schools affiliated to UNESCO and community education centers in Iraq in the biggest lesson of teachers in the world under the title «the goal of one (1): a lesson for all».

And UNESCO launched a public awareness campaign to highlight the importance of education included the distribution of materials on the financing of special education for literacy centers, schools and public service announcements in addition to broadcast a message from the Minister of Education on the television station education supported by UNESCO through all the days of the week. Will celebrate the World Health Organization this week through a series of health education activities organized jointly with the Ministry of Education. Iskandar said Khan, UNESCO representative in Iraq: «Among the bulk of the problems facing children in Iraq, it will be the decline in children's right to get a good education impact the most cause of concern for the future of Iraq, doctors, teachers and leaders of the next generation. »He added:« We look forward to increasing our efforts with the Government of Iraq and Iraqi communities, parents and children themselves to make Iraq the gold standard for education in the region again, which would, if accompanied by investment in areas of child health and protection of gains exceptional towards stable and prosperous Iraq in the future. »and added:« We have provided the United Nations team on the education sector in Iraq (UNESCO, UNICEF and the United Nations Programme for Human Settlements and the World Health Organization and the Organization of ESCWA and the International Labour Organization and the United Nations Office for Project Services and Organization International Migration and the World Food Programme as well as international non-governmental organizations) support for the education system in Iraq by participating in different activities. The United Nations undertook in Iraq that it would continue to work closely with interested parties with relevant national, including the Ministries of Education in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government, Parliament and the departments of Education and civil society organizations and non-governmental organizations and local communities to address the factors that affect access to quality education in Iraq.


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