SIERRA LEONEAN children’s rights to quality education, in line with President Maada Bio’s Free Quality School Education Programme, has gone a notch higher. At the just concluded annual meetings of the World Bank in Washington D.C, Community Action to Restore Lives, a civil society organization (CSO), supported by OXFAM International, ranked among an elite group that requested the World Bank to focus its funding programs on free, public quality education in developing countries rather than for-profit private education which exclude poor children and children with disability and special needs.
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The CSO’s CEO, Mrs Madiana Samba has been on various panels with eminent personalities pushing for increased financing to the education sector under the Bank’s IDA19.
IDA 19 funding negotiations are ongoing. Low-income countries are in discussions with donors for $86 billion in assistance to fund sundry development projects for the next three years. Sierra Leone’s Financial Secretary, Sahr Jusu, is one of 14 negotiators representing 77 IDA countries to raise the fund.
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