The Commission's vision will require total spending on education – from domestic and international expenditures combined – to rise steadily from $1.2 trillion USD per year today to $3.0 trillion USD by 2030 across all low- and middle-income countries. Much of this will come from a dividend available to national governments from the growth expected over the next decade and a half. But even with higher GDP growth rates, the Commission's proposals require governments to give greater priority to their education services. The Commission expects to see a rise in the total spending (public and private) on education from an average of 6 percent of a country's GDP to 8.5 percent across low and middle-income countries. In its report, the Education Commission draws attention to the unfulfilled need for support for education in emergencies.
“Sixty-three million out of school children and youth live in conflictaffected areas. Children in these countries are 30 percent less likely to complete primary school and half as likely to complete lower- secondary school. Just one in two refugee children attend primary school, while just one in four attend secondary school; in 2014 this meant that there were 32 million children and adolescents who were refugees and out of school. The reduced capacity and finances of the state to deliver education, coupled with inadequate international financing for education in emergencies, compound the problem and its lasting effects for postconflict states and their neighbours. Today, about one million Syrian refugee children are out of school. Most of those who are in school will drop out before starting their secondary education. In the space of a single primary -school generation, Syria has suffered what may be the greatest education reversal in history. At the time of publication, just 39% of the $662 million in urgent education aid sought by United Nations humanitarian agencies in 2016 has been funded, and only a fraction of the $1.4 billion pledged in London in February 2016 has been delivered. Emergencies could add approximately $9 billion to the projected education costs overall by 2030. Based on projections for countries at risk of violent or natural disasters. it is likely that most of the future emergencies will continue to occur in low- and lower-middle-income countries, and that the proportion of pupils affected will not decline. Emergencies are becoming extremely protracted in nature: 90 percent of countries with a Humanitarian Response Plan in 2014 have had an appeal for three or more years, underlining the importance of improving coordination between development and humanitarian aid.”
In April 2016, the European Commission announced an initial €83 million worth of humanitarian funding for emergency support projects to assist refugees in Greece. The
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