The Equitable Education Alliance (EEA; est. 2020), co-chaired by the UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office in Bangkok and Thailand’s ‘Equitable Education Fund’, is a community of practitioners in South-East Asia belonging to organizations, government ministries, agencies, and NGOs who advocate for a more inclusive and equitable educational system in the region, while simultaneously enhancing the performance of existing equitable education organizations at all levels.
The Alliance convenes at least two meetings annually to discuss and improve equity in education through collaborative efforts. A total of 17 countries1 and 22 local and international organizations2 have participated in these meetings, to date, mutually sharing the expertise they are applying to the promotion and fostering of equity in education systems regionally through four principal areas: 1) Legal Framework Policy Development; 2) Budgeting and Financing Mechanisms; 3) Delivery and Implementation Systems; and 4) Monitoring & Evaluation.
The 8th EEA Meeting will highlight the theme, ‘Monitoring and Evaluation Towards Sustaining Equitable Education’ as it applies to the national to the local levels. The Meeting will consist of two parts, namely a public session and a closed-door, ‘EEA-member-only’ session. The 8th EEA Meeting also aims to initiate potential collaborative opportunities and identify contact points that might together act as a basis for further development of EEA itself, and to develop key EEA activities and plans for monitoring their progress throughout the remainder of 2023.
The 8th Meeting will be live-streamed on the EEH Facebook page in English, and on the EEF Thailand Facebook page in Thai. This is a bilingual session with a Thai translation service provided throughout the programme.
Complementing the annual EEA meetings, the Equitable Education Hub (EquityEdHub or EEH) was launched in 2022 as a knowledge-sharing hub to 1) enable learners from around the world to readily access content on several topics pertaining the EEA’s goals towards improving equity in education through collaborative efforts; and 2) to provide substantive and technical support to those in need.
In addition, UNESCO Bangkok and Mission 4.7 partner the SDG Academy launched a free online course, Equity and Inclusion in Education, in April 2023. It is now available in English and Thai. To learn more and enroll, check out this video and click here.