Finance and Development ministers must seek a breakthrough on education financing when they meet in
Washington, DC this week. After the failure of the G8 summit in Kananaskis to mobilise additional aid for education, the future of the Fast Track initiative agreed at the 2002 Spring Meetings hangs in the balance. Unless the donors give full financial and political backing for a strengthened EFA action
plan, the international education agenda is set on a fast track to failure, threatening to jeopardise broader poverty reduction and development goals.