Achieving SDG4 through a Human Rights Based Approach to Education

doi:10.1596/28869

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Achieving SDG4 through a Human Rights Based Approach to Education

dc.contributor.author	Moriarty, Kate
dc.date.accessioned	2017-11-15T18:07:05Z
dc.date.available	2017-11-15T18:07:05Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.description.abstract	Quality education is a critical dimension for the achievement of sustainable development. The renewed political commitment set out in sustainable development goal 4 (SDG4) is an opportunity to ensure strong coherence between education policy and the right to education first articulated more than 70 years ago. This paper presents the results of a desk-based study on a human rights-based approach to education (HRBAE) in the context of SDG4. It explores the ways in which such an approach can guide policy, planning, and the delivery of education in observance with agreed international frameworks providing for the right to education. The paper argues that the human rights conventions on the right to education are not passive instruments designed to remain only at the level of discourse but, as legal obligations, require action from the state and should be central in the development of education services, including in the context of large scale displacement and crisis. This paper outlines the legally binding commitments of the right to education. It considers how these can be applied practically through a HRBA-E to address the continuing barriers to access and completion of quality education and learning. The paper is structured in four sections that examine: (1) the promise of education and the scale of unfulfilled obligations; (2) the conceptual roots of a human-rights approach and its application to education; (3) how a HRBA-E is central to issues critical for the achievement of SDG4, such as learning, equity, and financing; and (4) the issue of accountability: the World Bank and human rights, final reflections on a HBRA-E and SDG4.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/372051510294974244/Achieving-SDG4-through-a-human-rights-based-approach-to-education-a-background-paper-for-world-development-report-2018
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/28869
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/28869
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	World Development Report 2018 Background Paper;
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
dc.subject	SDG4
dc.subject	HUMAN RIGHTS
dc.subject	EDUCATION
dc.subject	ACCOUNTABILITY
dc.subject	LEARNING
dc.title	Achieving SDG4 through a Human Rights Based Approach to Education	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.type	Document de travail	fr
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Achieving SDG4 through a Human Rights Based Approach to Education
okr.date.disclosure	2017-11-10
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Working Paper
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/372051510294974244/Achieving-SDG4-through-a-human-rights-based-approach-to-education-a-background-paper-for-world-development-report-2018
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/28869
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okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	28148446
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okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/372051510294974244/pdf/121118-WP-PUBLIC-WDR18-BP-Achieving-SDG4-MORIARTY.pdf	en
okr.sector	Education
okr.topic	Education::Access & Equity in Basic Education
okr.topic	Education::Economics of Education
okr.topic	Education::Education For All
okr.topic	Law and Development::Human Rights
okr.topic	Social Development::Social Accountability
okr.unit	World Development Report (DECWD)