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Through our Knowledge Hub, we aim to keep you informed on education issues worldwide, SDG 4, and serve as a key resource in Ireland on education as a fundamental human right.

Relevant Publications by Year

2025

Policy Insight - Education and the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus at 10

Invisible Crimes, Lost Classrooms: Addressing Under-Reporting and Impunity in Attacks on Girls’ Education

Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA)
November 2025REPORT

The Big Returns to Early Investments in Foundational Literacy and Numeracy

Centre for Global Development
October 2025RECORDING EVENT

Funding cut analysis -- Education aid cuts: A broken promise to children

An urgent lesson plan to fix international education aid

Nicholas Burnett, Robert Jenkins
September 2025ARTICLE

Doing more with less: Why foreign aid should prioritise foundational learning now

Noam Angrist, Pia Britto, Stefan Dercon, Michelle Kaffenberger, Dean Karlan and Ben Piper
September 2025BLOG

GEC Global Advocacy Messaging Bank on EiE

Global Education Cluster (GEC)
April 2025TOOL

Education and nutrition - Learn to eat well (GEM Report SDG Edition)

GEM Report UNESCO and Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition
March 2025REPORT

Invest in my Friends’ Learning: How the UK can Reprioritise and Protect Funding for Global Education

Send My Friend to School - Global Campaign for Education UK & members
March 2025REPORT

Statement by the Members of the Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies - Funding cuts threaten education in crisis contexts

Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies
Feb 2025STATEMENT

State of Education for Crisis-Affected Children and Adolescents: Access and Learning Outcomes, Global Estimates 2025 Update

Education Cannot Wait (ECW)
Jan 2025REPORT

MOPAN Assessment Report: Global Partnership for Education (GPE)

Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN)
Jan 2025ASSESSMENT

Education Cannot Wait & Global Partnership for Education: Two complementary global funds responding to the global education crisis

Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Global Partnership for Education (GPE)
Jan 2025STATEMENT

State of Education for
Crisis-Affected Children and Adolescents: Access and Learning Outcomes - Global Estimates 2025 Update

Education Cannot Wait (ECW)
Jan 2025REPORT

The Global Status of Teachers 2024

Education International (EI)
Jan 2025REPORT

A Nation In Crisis: Protecting Myanmar's Children Through Education

World Vision
2025REPORT

2024

Missing Futures: The urgent need to protect Gaza’s children and safeguard their futures

Save the Children International
Dec 2024REPORT

The State of the World’s Children 2024 - The future of childhood in a changing world

Education Cannot Wait (ECW) & Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Complementarity Note

Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Global Partnership for Education (GPE)
Nov 2024STATEMENT

Transforming Education Towards SDG 4 - Report of a global survey on country actions to transform education

Global Education Monitoring Report 2024/25 - Leadership in Education

GEM Report UNESCO
Oct 2024REPORT

Education Finance Watch 2024

Worldbank, GEM Report UNESCO
Oct 2024REPORT

Making Technology Work for Education Transformation Goals: A Partnership Approach for Action

Global Partnership for Education (GPE)
Oct 2024TOOL

Stolen futures: The impacts of tax injustice on the Right to Education

Tax Justice Network
Oct 2024REPORT

The price of inaction: the global private, fiscal and social costs of children and youth not learning

UNESCO, OECD, Common Wealth Secretariat
June 2024REPORT

Global Report on Early Childhood Care and Education -The right to a strong foundation

2024 Spotlight on basic education completion and foundational learning in Africa

GEM Report UNESCO
May 2024REPORT

Transforming Education Financing in Africa - A Strategic Agenda for the African Union Year of Education

TaxEd Alliance, Action Aid
May 2024REPORT

ECW Advocates Toolkit on Education in Emergencies

Education Cannot Wait (ECW)
April 2024TOOL

UNHCR Education Report 2024 – Refugee education: Five years on from the launch of the 2030 refugee education strategy

School meals: A toolkit for parliamentarians

International Parliamentary Network for Education (IPNE)
2024TOOL

Education Under Attack 2024

Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack
2024REPORT

2023

Investing in Quality Education for Economic Development, Peace, and Stability

Daniel F. Runde, Romina Bandura, and Madeleine McLean for Centre for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
Dec 2023REPORT

Always Included - Uninterrupted education for children with disabilities before, during, and after a crisis

Handicap International
Nov 2023REPORT

Futures at Risk: Climate-Induced Shocks and Their Toll on Education for Crisis-Affected Children Background Study for the ECW Climate Appeal

Education Cannot Wait (ECW)
Oct 2023REPORT

Transforming Education Financing: A toolkit for activists

Tax Justice Network
June 2023TOOL

Toward Climate-Smart Education Systems: A 7-Dimension Framework for Action

Global Partnership for Education (GPE)
April 2023TOOL

The high price of education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Leora Klapper & Mansi Vipin Panchamia on World Bank Blog
March 2023BLOG

Tax Pays for Education - Financing the Future: Delivering SDG 4

Action Aid International
2023TOOL

2022

The power of education to end child marriage

EiE - GenKit

Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI)
Sept 2022TOOL

2019

Education Against the Odds - Meeting marginalised children’s demands
for a quality education

Save the Children
2019REPORT