The Bank's evaluation unit has released a report giving the Bank passing grades on increasing primary school enrolment and access for the disadvantaged, but failing grades on learning outcomes and educational management. Members of the report's external advisory panel say the report failed to address teachers, the impact of HIV/AIDS, and the role of IMF macroeconomic constraints.
Education
Conditionality
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Inflexibility on aid scale up haunts IMF fiscal conditions
The rigidity of Fund programmes is causing chafing at the collar in governments and civil society organisations in low-income countries, as the debate over the scaling up of aid rages.
Social services
Background
Evaluating the impact of the PRGF: The cases of Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia
Highlights of a civil society dialogue on the IMF Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, at the World Bank spring meetings in Washington, 20 April 2006.
Social services
News
Incendiario y bombero al mismo tiempo: el Banco Mundial y las matrículas escolares
La relatora especial anterior de la ONU sobre el derecho a la educaci
Social services
Background
The World Bank and education
brief summary of the World Bank's work and priorities in education
Social services
Commentary
Both arsonist and fire-fighter: the World Bank on school fees
A former UN special rapporteur on the right to education questions the World Bank's claim to have relinquished its support for user fees in education.
Social services
News
IMF conditions blocks achievement of goals in education, health
Two papers by ActionAid International, released at the UN Millennium Review Summit in New York in September, point the finger at the IMF for blocking achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
Environment
Background
UK NGO meeting with executive director Tom Scholar: uncorrected highlights 4 April 2005
Minutes of Spring meeting with Tom Scholar and UK NGOs in London
Conditionality
News
IMF: you don’t need no education
Research by ActionAid International finds that IMF polices present the biggest obstacle to attaining global goals for education.
Social services
Commentary
The role of World Bank and IMF post-tsunami in Indonesia
The Paris Club communiqu
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Year one of World Bank Paris Agreement alignment in the energy sector: ‘green conditionality’ dwarfs green investments
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Is the World Bank rolling back commitments to citizen engagement, again?
Understanding the Bank’s chequered history with public, community and civil society participation is key for understanding what is at stake and what to do next.