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STORY: UN / GORDON BROWN EDUCATION
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 11 MAY 2018, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
11 MAY 2018, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education:
“The biggest divide in the world today is between the half of our future who are going to educated and the other half who are being left behind. And the left behind includes 75 million children, including 10 million refugees in conflict zones and other emergencies where their education is interrupted and for whom the absence of education represents a promise betrayed.”
4. Med shot, press room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education:
“Currently, only one percent of multilateral development bank financing for middle income countries goes to education in Africa and Asia where there is the greatest need. Yet, the 50 plus lower-middle income countries in these continents are where the majority of our out of school children live, and where the majority of displaced and refugee children now reside. And these countries often face an untenable choice: Stop sending children to school, or borrow money at high commercial rates.”
6. Med shot, journalist
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education:
“The opportunity to ensure that we are the first generation in history where every child, for the first time goes to school, is our challenge, it is our task, it could be this century’s achievement. What has previously seemed impossible, we must make possible. What seemingly seemed out of our reach, is, I believe if we move forward in this united and comprehensive way, within our grasp.”
8. Med shot, press
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jakaya Kikwete, Former President of Tanzania & Commissioner with the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity:
“Today I am hopeful because of the International Finance Facility for Education. This is an innovative game changer that could add a new and much needed dimension to the international community’s financial architecture for education and to help developing countries and the international community fully finance SDG 4. If we cannot raise enough resources, the finance of SDG 4 will not be attained.”
10. Wide shot, end of presser
11. Various shots, Brown and youth activists give signed petition to Secretary-General António Guterres
Secretary-General António Guterres today (11 May) met with United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education, Gordon Brown, and youth activists who handed him a message from 1.5 million young people who signed a petition calling for more and better funding for education to achieve their full potential.
At a press encounter to launch the International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd), which aims to provide a brand new 10 billion US dollars stream of finance towards the achievement of Development Goal 4, Brown said “the biggest divide in the world today is between the half of our future who are going to educated and the other half who are being left behind.”
The former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom said these includes “75 million children, including 10 million refugees in conflict zones and other emergencies where their education is interrupted and for whom the absence of education represents a promise betrayed.”
Brown indicated that “currently, only one percent of multilateral development bank financing for middle income countries goes to education in Africa and Asia where there is the greatest need.”
He said these countries “often face an untenable choice: Stop sending children to school, or borrow money at high commercial rates.”
Brown said “the opportunity to ensure that we are the first generation in history where every child, for the first time goes to school, is our challenge, it is our task, it could be this century’s achievement. What has previously seemed impossible, we must make possible. What seemingly seemed out of our reach, is, I believe if we move forward in this united and comprehensive way, within our grasp.”
The former President of Tanzania, Jakaya Kikwete, who is also the Commissioner with the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity said “today I am hopeful because of the International Finance Facility for Education. This is an innovative game changer that could add a new and much needed dimension to the international community’s financial architecture for education and to help developing countries and the international community fully finance SDG 4. If we cannot raise enough resources, the finance of SDG 4 will not be attained.”
The IFFEd, put forward by the Secretary-General, will help countries achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4, which calls on governments to deliver equitable, quality education for all. SDG4 is also key to realizing the ambitions set out by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
IFFEd will use innovative financing to unlock USD 10 billion in new funding for education in its initial phase by working with the World Bank and regional development banks. The Facility is intended to make aid more effective by leveraging and maximizing the impact of donor resources. Countries will be asked to be founding guarantors and provide financial support to make the Facility operational.
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