Global Civil Society & the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 4: Quality Education

Quality Education


Progress towards quality education was already slower than required before the pandemic, but COVID-19 has had devastating impacts on education, causing learning losses in four out of five of the 104 countries studied.

Without additional measures, an estimated 84 million children and young people will stay out of school by 2030 and approximately 300 million students will lack the basic numeracy and literacy skills necessary for success in life.

In addition to free primary and secondary schooling for all boys and girls by 2030, the aim is to provide equal access to affordable vocational training, eliminate gender and wealth disparities, and achieve universal access to quality higher education.

Education is the key that will allow many other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved. When people are able to get quality education they can break from the cycle of poverty.

Education helps to reduce inequalities and to reach gender equality. It also empowers people everywhere to live more healthy and sustainable lives. Education is also crucial to fostering tolerance between people and contributes to more peaceful societies.

To deliver on Goal 4, education financing must become a national investment priority. Furthermore, measures such as making education free and compulsory, increasing the number of teachers, improving basic school infrastructure and embracing digital transformation are essential.

Name Acronym Founded City HQ Country/Territory HQ Type I Type II

Religieuses de Saint François d'Assise de Lyon

1838 Montréal QC Canada R

Religions for Peace

RfP 1970 New York NY USA F

Religious of Christian Education

RCE 1817 Saint-Maur-des-Fossés France R

Religious of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts

1826 Rome Italy R

Religious Youth Service

RYS 1986 New York NY USA K

Remarque Institute, New York

1995 New York NY USA G j

Remote Area Medical

RAM 1985 Knoxville TN USA N

Renaissance Universal

RU 1975 London UK G v

Rencontres philosophiques de l'UNESCO

Paris France S c

René Cassin

2000 London UK G

Renewable Energy Institute

REI 1975 Edinburgh UK J

Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale

RILM 1966 New York NY USA F

REPSSI

Johannesburg South Africa D

Research and Counselling Foundation for African Migrants

RECFAM 2004 Accra Ghana G

Research and Information Center for Asian Studies

RICAS 1966 Tokyo Japan G

Research and Information System for Developing Countries, India

RIS, India 1983 Delhi India G g

Research Association for Planning and Building in Developing Countries

Trialog Darmstadt Germany G

Research Association on Monetary Innovation and Community and Complementary Currency Systems

RAMICS 2015 Lyon France C

Research Center for Asian Infectious Diseases

RCAID Tokyo Japan N

Research Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental Cooperation

INENCO 1989 St Petersburg Russia N

Research Center for International Economics

RCIE 2008 Beijing China G

Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University

RECNA 2012 Nagasaki Japan N

Research Centre for Arctic Petroleum Exploration

ARCEx N

Research Centre for Global Governance

RCGG Porto Alegre Brazil G

Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture

IRCICA 1978 Istanbul Türkiye E g

Research Centre on Development and International Relations

DIR 1982 Aalborg Denmark G

Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition

Research Consortium for SHN London UK J j

Research Data Alliance

RDA 2013 Didcot UK C

Research Group for an Alternative Economic Strategy

1978 Brussels Belgium G

Research ICT Africa Network

RIA Cape Town South Africa G

Research in Engineering Education Network

REEN F

Research in International Economics and Finance Network

RIEF 2004 Paris France F

Research in Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science Foundation

ROTOS 2020 Utrecht Netherlands F f

Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific, Sydney

RIAP 1987 Sydney NSW Australia G j

Research Institute for European and American Studies

RIEAS 1994 Athens Greece G jv

Research Institute for International Management, St Gallen

St Gallen Switzerland N j

Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia

RILCA 1981 Nakhon Pathom Thailand N j

Research Institute for Peace and Security, Tokyo

1978 Tokyo Japan G j

Research Institute for Regional and Transnational Processes

N j

Research Institute for Southeast Asia, Marseille

1993 Marseille France G j

Research Institute for Spirituality and Health

RISH Langenthal Switzerland G

Research Institute for Subtropics, Okinawa

RIS 1996 Naha Japan G j

Research Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Vienna

1991 Vienna Austria N j

Research Institute of Asian Women

RIAW 1960 Seoul Korea Rep N j

Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth

RITE 1990 Kyoto Japan G

Research Institute of Organic Agriculture

1973 Brussels Belgium F j

Research Institute of Tropical Medicine

RITM 1981 Muntinlupa City Philippines G j

Research Institute on the Non-Violent Resolution of Conflicts

1984 Montreuil France G j

Research Network for Schistosomiasis in Africa

RNSA 2004 Ndola Zambia F

Research Network on International Governance, Globalization and the Transformations of the State

Mons Belgium G

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