UNICEF has published a report “Education aid cuts: A broken promise to children”. This analysis shows that international aid to education is projected to fall by US$3.2 billion by 2026 – a 24 per cent drop.
If the announced cuts to official development assistance (ODA) become a reality, UNICEF estimates that 6 million more children risk being out of school by the end of 2026, 30 per cent of them in humanitarian settings. This is equivalent to emptying every primary school in Germany and Italy combined. It would raise the estimated number of out-of-school children from the current 272 million to 278 million.