Achieving SDG4 through a Human Rights Based Approach to Education
Quality education is a critical dimension for the achievement of sustainable development. The renewed political commitment set out in sustainable development goal 4 (SDG4) is an opportunity to ensure strong coherence between education policy and th...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/372051510294974244/Achieving-SDG4-through-a-human-rights-based-approach-to-education-a-background-paper-for-world-development-report-2018 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28869 |
| Summary: | Quality education is a critical
dimension for the achievement of sustainable development.
The renewed political commitment set out in sustainable
development goal 4 (SDG4) is an opportunity to ensure strong
coherence between education policy and the right to
education first articulated more than 70 years ago. This
paper presents the results of a desk-based study on a human
rights-based approach to education (HRBAE) in the context of
SDG4. It explores the ways in which such an approach can
guide policy, planning, and the delivery of education in
observance with agreed international frameworks providing
for the right to education. The paper argues that the human
rights conventions on the right to education are not passive
instruments designed to remain only at the level of
discourse but, as legal obligations, require action from the
state and should be central in the development of education
services, including in the context of large scale
displacement and crisis. This paper outlines the legally
binding commitments of the right to education. It considers
how these can be applied practically through a HRBA-E to
address the continuing barriers to access and completion of
quality education and learning. The paper is structured in
four sections that examine: (1) the promise of education and
the scale of unfulfilled obligations; (2) the conceptual
roots of a human-rights approach and its application to
education; (3) how a HRBA-E is central to issues critical
for the achievement of SDG4, such as learning, equity, and
financing; and (4) the issue of accountability: the World
Bank and human rights, final reflections on a HBRA-E and SDG4. |
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