E9 countries meeting

E9 Partnership was first established in 1993 with the objective to achieve the goals of UNESCO’s Education For All (EFA) initiative.
E9 countries include Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan.
They represent over half of the world’s population and some of the largest education systems in the world.
E9 countries together can strengthen political will and collective effort to ensure quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all.
E9 Partnership is working for the achievement of SDG4 – Education 2030.

A Consultation meeting of Ministers of Education of E9 countries was held recently.

It discussed the co-creation of the Digital Learning initiative by the nine countries.
This Consultation highlighted progress, shared lessons and explored opportunities for collaboration and scale-up to expand digital learning and skills.
In addition, a Marketplace segment, for public-private partnership focused on promising local and global solutions and opportunities for digital learning to strengthen local ecosystems.

E9 initiative: Scaling up digital learning to accelerate progress towards SDG4.

- The UN is spearheading a global initiative on digital learning and skills for all, targeting marginalized children and youth and aiming to close the digital divide and drive rapid change in education systems.
- The initiative aims to accelerate recovery and advance the Sustainable Development Goal 4 agenda by driving rapid change in education systems in three of the 2020 Global Education Meeting priorities:

As part of the Decade of Action to accelerate progress on SDG4 and in response to COVID-19, the 2020 Global Education Meeting (GEM) Declaration identified five priorities for urgent action:

(i) education financing;

(ii) safe school reopening;

(iii) supporting teachers as frontline workers;

(iv) investment in skills; and

(v) narrowing the digital divide.

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