Please join us as both practitioners and scholars discuss issues facing civil society advocating for national education policies!

Please, in your busy day today, spare a moment to remember the 1,134 workers who were killed and the thousands more who were maimed and traumatized so we could have disposable clothing. #RanaPlaza ⁦ Forgetting Rana Plaza | From Poverty to Power frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/forgetting-ran…

Looking forward to chatting about my PhD dissertation on drivers of Ethiopian education policy at the #instituteofethiopianstudies Addis Ababa University on Tuesday, April 30th.

A bold conclusion from our research for Global Partnership for Education: in its golden era after the Cold War, civil society succeeded in establishing the global norm that education really is FOR ALL. Against all the cynicism, sometimes organized people power does succeed. Felipe Hevia Abrehet Gebremedhin

Great to read public questioning about the (distinct) purposes of education at different levels and governments’ differing interests in controlling access to quality, public education for often marginalized or forgotten groups. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Folks often forgot that access to quality education is hard-won and civil society is on the (risky) front line. Naomi Hossain, Felipe Hevia and I have written a new blog for the Global Partnership for Education, informed by our work at the ARC - also @arc-au.bsky.social on the Education Out Loud program.

New article: patterns of #localization in USAID's Colombia program. Jonathan Fox & Jeff Hallock discuss the strengths & limitations of public disclosure of data on US aid & analyze open data on funding priorities & direct local funding levels doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12…

"We need to transform our society [so that] people understand who to hold accountable & actually hold those people accountable." Powerful words from Joy Aceron on the reversals this demands & the transformative power of popular education g-watch.org/think-piece/ac…

Do education policies shape political inequality?🤔 In our article Comparative Political Studies with Nadja Wehl, we argue & find that they do! doi.org/10.1177/001041… Here's why: 1) schools are important socialization environments: people spend much time there during impressionable years 1/5

Learning from grassroots justice workers about not only to counter repression, but how to advance a deeper version of democracy - a worthwhile read for #IDD2024

Pleased to share an article that I wrote for OECD series on the next frontier of citizen participation. Comments welcome! Jonathan Fox ARC - also @arc-au.bsky.social @karen_v_brock Julia Fischer-Mackey, PhD Mariana Cepeda Abrehet Gebremedhin International Budget Partnership Open Gov Hub Trust, Accountability & Inclusion Collaborative UNODC CSU Transparency International U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre

Heavy debt burdens in low-income countries divert funds from education. Over 30 GPE partner countries spend half their education budgets on debt repayments. In Nepal, GPE #EducationOutLoud supports tax justice and debt relief advocacy to boost education funding 👇

Excellent piece by Naomi Hossain and Rafsanul Hoque that interrogates our assumptions on the future of youth-led civil society and advocacy reform in education, looking at innovative solutions to improving education quality in Bangladesh. Global Partnership for Education

On this #internationaldayofeducation2025, we celebrate the role of civil society organizations in shaping education policy and share analysis of how that role is changing. Thanks to Education Out Loud, Oxfam Danmark , and the Global Partnership for Education, our team spent two years learning

Citizen monitoring can work in tandem with legislative oversight based on mutually reinforcing agendas. Joy Aceron and I discuss the case of Multiply-Ed in the Philippines in this new Accountability Note on how citizens action can boost existing oversight mechanisms.