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PEHRC’s resource hub brings together key evidence on the challenges faced by our public education systems globally, including the privatisation in and of education, for policymakers, researchers and education advocates.
Key Resource on the Right to Education
The Abidjan Principles
The Abidjan Principles are a tool for governments, courts and education advocates to defend education as a human right.
Developed through extensive consultations across five continents, the Principles clarify States' obligations to provide public education and to regulate private actors.
Resource Library
Etat des lieux de la privatisation en Afrique francophone
Type: Audio
Author(s): eduCoop Thibaut Lauwerier
Publisher(s): eduCoop
Language(s): French
‘Build Us More Schools!’ - The Quest for Quality Free Education in Mabatini and Ngei Wards of Mathare, Nairobi
Type: Research
Author(s): Roselyne Onyango & Timothy Fish Hodgson
Publisher(s): Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR)
Language(s): English
The Conceptualisation and Regulation of APBET Schools in Kenya: Applying the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education
Type: Research
Author(s): Roselyne Onyango
Publisher(s): Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR), Right to Education, Regional Education Learning Initiative (RELI)
Language(s): English
Fifty Years of Failure: The IMF, Debt and Austerity in Africa
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Roos Saalbrink and David Archer
Publisher(s): ActionAid
Language(s): English
Report on the Implementation of the Liberia Education Advancement Program (LEAP)
Type: Research
Author(s): Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) and Coalition for Transparency and Accountability in Education (COTAE)
Publisher(s): Coalition for Transparency and Accountability in Education (COTAE)
Language(s): English
General comment 7 state obligations under the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights in the context of Private Provision of Social Services
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)
Publisher(s): African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)
Language(s): English
Education versus austerity
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): ActionAid and Education International (EI)
Publisher(s): ActionAid and Education International (EI)
Language(s): English
Transparency of Private Commercial Education Providers: A case study of Bridge International Academies
Type: Research
Author(s): Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR)
Publisher(s): Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR)
Language(s): English
How Kenyan initiative helped to regain education as a public good over for-profit education in low-fee private schools.
Type: Research
Author(s): Christel Adick
Publisher(s): Journal of International Educational Research and Development Education
Language(s): English
Private education and compliance with the Abidjan Principles: A study of Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Nigeria
Type: Research
Author(s): Elaine Unterhalter et al.
Publisher(s): ActionAid International
Language(s): English
Multi-country research on private education in compliance with the right to education: A study of Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda. Johannesburg.
Type: Research
Author(s): Dr. Maria Ron Balsera
Publisher(s): ActionAid
Language(s): English
What do we really know about Bridge International Academies?
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Curtis Riep
Publisher(s): Education International (EI)
Language(s): English
Why Should Tax Justice Be Part of the Solution to Finance Free Good Quality Education? A Multi-country Study: Pakistan, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda
Type: Research
Author(s): Maria Ron Balsera
Publisher(s): A Journal of Comparative and International Education
Language(s): English
Privatisation and the sale of public school lands in Mauritania
Type: Research
Author(s): AFCF, COMEDUC &GI-ESCR
Publisher(s): AFCF, COMEDUC &GI-ESCR
Language(s): English
Low Cost Private Schools: School choice for the poor at the expense of quality?
Type: Research
Author(s): The East African centre for Human Rights (EACHRights)
Publisher(s): The East African centre for Human Rights (EACHRights)
Language(s): English
The effects of privatisation on girls’ access to free, quality public education in Malawi, Mozambique, Liberia, Tanzania and Nepal
Type: Research
Author(s): Eva Iversen & Alberto Begue
Publisher(s): ActionAid
Language(s): English
Whose children go to Bridge International Academies?
Type: Research
Author(s): ActionAid
Publisher(s): ActionAid
Language(s): English
From Free to Fee - Are For-Profit, Fee-Charging, Private Schools the solution for the world’s poor?
Type: Research
Author(s): William C. Smith et al.
Publisher(s): RESULTS Educational Fund
Language(s): English
What do the new data on Bridge International Academies tell us about their impact on human rights? A five-point analysis.
Type: Research
Author(s): ISER, EachRights & GI-ESCR
Publisher(s): ISER, EachRights & GI-ESCR
Language(s): English
Education International and Kenya National Union of Teachers release new report, ‘Bridge vs. Reality: a study of Bridge International Academies’ for-profit schooling in Kenya’
Type: Research
Author(s): Education International (EI) & Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT)
Publisher(s): EI & KNUT
Language(s): English
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