The Nairobi Charter on Transforming Education Financing was adopted in April 2026 by African civil society organisations convened under the Education Out Loud Learning Collaborative on Education Financing in Nairobi. It calls on African governments to meet and exceed global benchmarks of allocating at least 20% of national budgets and/or 6% of GDP to education, increase domestic resources through progressive, gender-responsive taxation and debt justice, and reject austerity and privatisation that undermine public education.
The Charter urges national and international actors to align tax, debt and aid policies with human rights obligations, strengthen equity-focused education spending, and ensure full transparency and public scrutiny of education budgets so that no learner is left behind.