NGOs warn Ghana will miss MDGs

A coalition of non-governmental organisations in Ghana has expressed fears that the country might fail to attain the Education for All (EFA) target under Millenium Development Goals (MDGs).

The coalition said although the country initiated the draft policy of the Complementary Basic Education (CBE) in 2006, available evidence shows that about 25 percent of school going age children was still out of school.

In a position paper on education, the NGO umbrella organisation on the CBE Alliance said, if Ghana failed to take urgent steps to implement the policy by September 2011, then it would be impossible to attain the target.

The coalition asked whether after missing the target for gender parity in basic education in 2005, "we are comfortable with missing the second major target of EFA) and the MDGs one and two in 2015.”

“If we are indifferent as a country to these global and national targets, is it then worth the effort subscribing to these targets, especially when Ghana has been signed onto the education fast tract initiative of the World Bank.”

It appealed to the government to put in place immediate steps to adopt and implement the CBE policy.

Members of the coalition include the Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC), IBIS-Ghana, the Ghana Institute of languages Literacy and Bible Translation (GILLBT) and the Northern Network for Education Development (NNED).

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