The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) was launched in 1999 when civil society movements - teachers’ unions, popular education actors, children’s rights militants and international solidarity associations- mobilized in view of participating to the World Forum on Education on April, 2000 in Dakar. The GCE involves almost all countries in the world and is renewed every year.
The GCE is embodied by the conviction that a good quality education for all is an objective easily achievable with tragical consequences in case of failure.
The Global Campaign for Education claims that Education is :
• A universal human right
• A key to poverty alleviation and sustainable human development
• A central responsability of the States
• An achievable objective if a sufficient political will is mobilized
Each year, the GCE organizes a Global Action Week (April) to let all the militants for the right to education throughout the world express their attachment to their convictions and their determination to see their objectives fullfilled.
Finally, the GCE, as a major protagonist on the international scene, is acknowledged by national authorities (National Education and Foreign Affairs Ministeries) and international entities (UNESCO, World Bank, etc...) as a valid political partner that is called upon to take part in the dialogue and negotiations regarding the issue of education for all.
In France, for instance, the National Education Ministry sees the Global Campaign for Education as a significant chance to act and discuss alltogether at the school level. Public authorities regularly call upon the campaigning organizations within the framework of strategic negotiations.
