Education International's Antonia Wulff explains that the Sustainable Development Goal 4 could be summarised as more education of a better quality for all, and that quality and equity must be at the centre of the 2030 Agenda.
Across 6 countries in Africa, education union programmes against child labour are delivering life-changing results. In 2024 alone, over 1,880 former child labourers have been returned to classrooms in project areas in Burundi, Malawi, Mali, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
Over 1,880 children brought back to school thanks to education unions working to end child labour
The expert group in charge of the SDG indicators rejected the proposed measurement strategy for target 4.7 on education for sustainable development, human rights and global citizenship. A dramatic turn in the SDGs serial but is it really as disastrous as it seems? And what does this mean in practice?
SDG4 & education for sustainable development: Why we should celebrate an apparent failure? By Antonia Wulff