UK Charity Slams Donors for Neglecting U.N. Basic Education Goal

A UK charity said on Friday, major countries and NGOs have cut back the proportion of aid for basic education in developing nations in recent years and their funding has been "inconsistent, uncoordinated and declining."
The charity, A World At School, said in a report that overall aid for basic education is "exactly the same as a decade ago," accusing donors of a "lack of ambition" to achieve the U.N. Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015.
The charity continued, that 9 of the 10 largest donors, including the United States, Britain, France and Germany, have been reducing the proportion of aid going to primary schooling since 2010, and the only big bilateral donor that has increased it is Norway.
The NGO described support from multilateral groups such as the Global Partnership for Education, and the World Bank, which holds its annual meeting in Washington D.C. this week, as "erratic".