IDASA led GTF programme

GTF Number 086

The Right to Know, The Right to Education

Key Facts

• Start date: 8 October 2008
• End date: 21 July 2013
• Amount of DFID funding £4,475,241

The overall purpose of the Right to Know, Right to Education project is to broaden and improve access to basic education in sub-Saharan Africa.  In pursuit of this, we are working around four pillars:

• We would like to increase the democratic space in designing national budgets, making them more responsive to citizens’ needs.
• We would like to promote advocacy around education policy to ensure that national and district budgets reflect the priorities identified in education development policy.
• We would like to sensitize communities in each of the partner countries to their rights of access information, where it exists, and to pair this right to development initiatives, particularly those surrounding education.  We would also like to establish a continental standard on the process associated with acquiring information from public institutions.
• We would like to establish the right to basic education, along with appropriate quality standards in each of the seven countries we work.