Public good over private profit - Global Campaign For Education

Public good

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A toolkit for civil society to resist the privatisation of education

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This toolkit was written by Caroline Pearce, with inputs by Jo Walker, and edited by Shaharazad Abuel-Ealeh and Jo Walker on behalf of the Global Campaign for Education. We gratefully acknowledge the inputs made by Anjela Taneja; David Archer, ActionAid International; Muntasim Tanvir, formerly ActionAid International; Camilla Croso and Adelaida Entenza, Campa?a Latinoamericana por el Derecho a la Educaci?n (CLADE); Antonia Wulff, Education International; Anne S?rensen and colleagues, Oxfam IBIS; Brian Callahan, formerly of GCE-US; Jennifer Rigg, GCE-US; Rene Raya, Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education (ASPBAE); and colleagues from Campa?a Peruana por el Derecho a la Educaci?n (CPDE), Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition, and Regroupement Education pour Toutes et Tous Haiti (REPT). The toolkit has also drawn upon the resources and work of Education International, the Right to Education Initiative, and the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

This toolkit is independently produced by GCE, with funding from the Open Society Foundations and Wellspring Advisors. For more information about the toolkit contact the GCE Secretariat here: ?Global Campaign for Education, September 2017 All rights reserved. 6 Blackwood Avenue, Parktown, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa

Cover pic: Citizens to demand expansion of public education in Tanzania during GCE's Global Action Week for Education, 2017. Image courtesy of Tanzania Education Network/Mtandao Wa Elimu

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Public good over private A toolkit for civil society to resist profit the privatisation of education

CONTENTS

Introduction to this toolkit ? what, who and why?..................................................3

1. What is the big picture? Understanding the global context..................................................4 2. What is our situation? Understanding your context and identifying issues.................. 28 3. What change do we want to see? Determining your objectives and demands............ 45 4. Who has the power? Building a map of your targets and allies....................................... 55 5. How will we achieve our goals? Understanding and choosing tactics.............................73 6. How do we build local power? Building links from the grassroots to global level........ 92

ANNEX A: Notes on the exercises........................................................................................... 106 ANNEX B: Select additional resources ................................................................................... 108

PUBLIC GOOD OVER PRIVATE PROFIT ? A TOOLKIT FOR CIVIL SOCIETY TO RESIST THE PRIVATISATION OF EDUCATION GLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION

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PUBLIC GOOD OVER PRIVATE PROFIT ? A TOOLKIT FOR CIVIL SOCIETY TO RESIST THE PRIVATISATION OF EDUCATION GLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION

Introduction to this toolkit ? what, who and why?

What is this toolkit & who is it for?

This toolkit is intended as a resource for civil society coalitions and organisations with a rights-based understanding of education, who want to better understand the development and impact of privatisation in the education sector in their country, and who may be thinking about, or have already embarked on, advocacy against the harmful effects of privatisation. While reflecting primarily the context of the Global South ? both low- and middle-income countries ? the toolkit draws on experiences and examples from around the world, and should provide useful background, insight and ideas for activists in any context or country.

Who created it and why?

The Global Campaign for Education (GCE), founded in 1999, is a global civil society movement that advances the right to education through advocacy and public campaigns. GCE is a network of member organisations, networks and coalitions, present in more than 100 countries. Our members bring together civil society organisations, NGOs, teacher unions, child rights activists, parents' associations, young people and community groups.

GCE is driven by the conviction that quality education for all is achievable, and that citizen action to put pressure on and monitor governments is critical to ensure that governments take prompt, effective and accountable action to realise this right.

GCE recognises that the right to education implies both that states have a responsibility to ensure access to equitable, quality education, and that education should be free. Recent experience of our members and allies has raised concerns about ways in which growing privatisation and commodification in and of education systems has worsened inequity in education, deepened broader economic inequality, threatened progress towards quality education for all and undermined the delivery of quality public education.

Given this, GCE has been working with members to track developments relating to public and private education around the world, and understand their impacts. Since 2013, GCE members have undertaken research on the impact of private provision on the right to education, and GCE has produced a report, Private Profit, Public Loss, focused largely on `lowfee' private schools. In this toolkit, GCE draws on member experience and expertise to produce a resource that can be of wider use in supporting the GCE movement, and civil society in general, to challenge those aspects of the privatisation of education that threaten to undermine the achievement of the right to free, public quality and equitable education for all.

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