Nicholas Burnett delivered the keynote presentation to the International Working Group on Education, a biennial assembly of the major public and private donors to education, in Stockholm on June 7.

The theme of this year's meeting was "Financing education: Redesigning national strategies and the global aid architecture". Burnett argued that parents and developing country governments are doing their best but that international donors lag behind. He called for attention to seven topics:

Nicholas Burnett, who heads up the Education group at R4D, recently published a piece in Global Magazine's special feature, "2010: A turning point in achieving education for all." The article, Getting inclusive education back on track after the financial crisis, discusses the impact of the global economic crisis on achieving Education for All and addresses areas of opportunity for innovative financing mechanisms and better allocation of resources.

An initiative co-sponsored by the Results for Development Institute (R4D) and the Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) has won top honors at the Marketplace on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development, a competition hosted by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Bank.

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Affinity MacroFinance 2016_The Year In Review.pdf

On December 3, 2009, Nicholas Burnett and David de Ferranti hosted a meeting of leading of experts in the global education field to discuss the critical issues in education today and the role that Results for Development can play with its new program. The meeting involved statements by Burnett and de Ferranti as well as Birger Fredriksen and Alan Ruby, Senior Technical Advisors of the Education Program at R4D.

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R4D Education Meeting Summary 12.3.09.pdf

Seoul, Korea – Nicholas Burnett, who leads R4D’s work in education, was a keynote speaker for the Global Human Resources Forum on November 3-5, 2009. Burnett’s presentation on “Rethinking Aid for Education” reviews the existing challenges to effective education programs in low- and middle-income countries and suggest some key areas for reform in the international architecture of aid for education.

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Burnett_Rethinking Aid for Education.pdf

R4D’s Transparency and Accountability Program, led by project coordinator Courtney Tolmie, visited New Delhi on July 21, 2009 and Kampala on July 29, 2009 to bring together its grantees from its latest grant round. Tolmie, assisted by program associate Courtney Heck, facilitated 3-day launch workshops in which grantees received technical training from experts on public expenditure tracking methodologies, discussed program goals, and met fellow participants.

Nicholas Burnett will lead Results for Development's new Education portfolio. A global leader on improving education outcomes for the world’s poor, he will step down at the end of October as UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Education.