In the global effort to achieve Education for All by 2015, the
financing of education is a key issue for governments and
donors. Reliable and comparable statistics on the sources and
use of funding are needed to improve education planning,
management and resource mobilization. What is the role of the
UIS? The UIS collects education finance data through its annual
education survey. This information is used by the UIS and
partners to regularly assess global, regional and country
spending patterns, links between funding and outcomes, and the
impact of global financial fluctuations on education. However,
many countries are unable to produce the data required for
effective monitoring and planning. The challenge is to establish
feasible and sustainable methods for national statisticians to
translate their country’s data on education spending into the
UIS’s classification system, which allows comparability between
countries. In response, the UIS supports Ministries of Education
to improve the collection, analysis an