The Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report) is an editorially independent, authoritative and evidence-based annual report published by UNESCO. Drawing its mandate from the Incheon Declaration at the World Education Forum and the Education 2030 Framework for Action, it is the international community’s tool for monitoring and reporting on:
- Progress towards the education targets in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations Member States in September 2015
- The implementation of national and international strategies aimed at contributing to the achievement of SDG 4, the global education goal.
Accordingly, the GEM Report contains a monitoring part, which primarily reports on progress made on each of the 10 SDG 4 targets, and a thematic part, which focuses on a key topic for the achievement of SDG 4, decided upon by the GEM Report’s international Advisory Board.
This concept note introduces the proposed scope and approach of the 2021 GEM Report on the theme of non-state actors in education. It is a working document, intended to provide a basis for consultation, stimulate discussion and elicit feedback from the Report’s multiple stakeholders.
This note reviews how the core SDG 4-related document recognises the role of non-state actors in the achievement of the global education targets; explores some of the key issues in the global debate about non-state actors; proposes a framework for the 2021 Report; and puts forward some key questions to be answered.
