Across the region, significant progress in education has been made in primary and secondary education enrolments, literacy rates, girls’ education, and a decline in out-of-school rates. Despite this, young people, especially those from marginalized backgrounds, continue to face persisting and emerging challenges, such as worsening inequalities and poverty, a changing world of work, the existential threat of the climate crisis, the rise of digital technologies…

The 17th National Convention on Youth Agency in Education 2026, organized by ASPBAE member Pakistan Coalition for Education (PCE), an initiative of Society for Access to Quality Education (SAQE), on 10-11 August 2026, in Islamabad, Pakistan…

On 1 July 2026, Vietnam Association for Education for All (VAEFA)’s Youth Representative in the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Youth Leaders, Trần Minh Tường, presented the Opening Reflection in the “GPE High-Level Partnership Reception- From Learning to Prosperity: Partnerships to Strengthen Viet Nam’s Human Capital,”

The High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) will soon be convened from Tuesday, 7 July, to Wednesday, 15 July 2026, under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

“Youth participation in accountability work is not a feel-good add-on. It’s a strategy. It produces better evidence. It builds more durable accountability relationships. And it grows a generation of young people who understand how systems work — and how to change them,” said Laraib Kiani, Pakistan Coalition for Education (PCE)’s…

Serving for the term 2026-2027, ASPBAE is back in the global SDG4 High Level Steering Committee (HLSC) which is the apex body for global education cooperation and the coordination mechanism for education in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.