Monday to Wednesday of this week was the Millenniumm Development Goals Summit in New York. Country representatives gathered at the UN Headquarters to discuss the progress of the MDGs ten years after they were conceived and with five years to go before they should be realised. For me, I'm not sure what I'll do now the Smmit is over- just about everything I've been doing so far in my internship has been in preparation for the Summt, research for an advocacy brief, selecting photos for a presentation, ringing all the printing companies in New York to find out who could print us 75 lovely copies of our advocacy brief, like, NOW. I very much enjoyed most of what I've been doing, though have not yet had any account of how the education event actually went.
According to who you talk to, MDG 2, achieving universal primary education, has either;
a) fallen off the radar and no-one cares about it any more even though it's so important,
or,
b) been central to the debate of all the MDGs because it's so important.
Education did not get as much coverage as health, it seems to me, but I can't agree that it has fallen off the radar.
Kevin Watkins , who edits the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, published a piece in the Guardian demanding that we keep the promise made to the world's children, and international dignitaries such as Queen Rania of Jordan, and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown have continued to champion the cause of education.
For next week, I'm not sure what I'll be doing- beginning preparations for the MDG Summit in 2015, perhaps?
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