A/HRC/38/32
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education
on governance and the right to education
Contents
Page
I.
Introduction ...................................................................................................................................
3
II.
Activities undertaken by the Special Rapporteur ..........................................................................
3
III.
Governance in education ...............................................................................................................
4
IV.
A rights-based approach to education governance ........................................................................
4
A.
A global governance framework ...........................................................................................
5
B.
International legal obligations relating to the right to education ..........................................
5
C.
International political commitments .....................................................................................
6
D.
Available, accessible, acceptable and adaptable: the 4-A scheme ........................................
7
V.
Human rights norms and values ....................................................................................................
7
VI.
Key attributes of good governance ................................................................................................
7
A.
Access to information ...........................................................................................................
7
B.
Transparency.........................................................................................................................
8
C.
Participation ..........................................................................................................................
8
D.
Accountability.......................................................................................................................
9
Decentralizing governance ............................................................................................................
10
A.
Types of decentralization ......................................................................................................
10
B.
Human rights benefits of decentralization ............................................................................
11
C.
Challenges and required conditions ......................................................................................
11
D.
Capacity-building .................................................................................................................
11
VIII.
Human rights-based management .................................................................................................
12
IX.
Monitoring and data collection......................................................................................................
13
X.
Justiciability and governance ........................................................................................................
13
A.
Quasi-judicial mechanisms ...................................................................................................
13
B.
Courts....................................................................................................................................
14
C.
Anti-corruption mechanisms .................................................................................................
14
D.
Training and capacity-building .............................................................................................
14
XI.
Rights-based governance and solidarity ........................................................................................
14
XII.
Privatization ..................................................................................................................................
15
XIII.
Conclusions and recommendations ...............................................................................................
15
VII.
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