obligation is reinforced by several other international instruments.440 The reference to “maximum available resources” is not limited to those existing at the national level, but also to resources available from the international community through international assistance and co-operation.441 Economic assistance and co-operation The Special Rapporteur has analysed the evolution and trends of development assistance for education as a means to enhance the capacity of receiving States to meet their obligations regarding the right to education.442 She found that aid for education has (at least during the 1990s) increased within a diminishing volume of aid and that, contrary to common belief, most aid for education goes to higher rather than primary education.443 The Dakar Framework affirms that no country seriously committed to Education for All will be thwarted in achieving this goal by lack of resources. The international community acknowledges that many countries currently lack the resources to achieve Education for All within an acceptable timeframe. Consequently, new financial resources, preferably in the form of grants and concessional assistance, must be mobilised by bilateral and multilateral funding agencies, including the World Bank and regional development banks, and the private sector.444 According to the Dakar Framework, initiatives of the international community aimed at developing the strategies and mobilising the resources needed to provide effective support to national efforts could include:445 • increasing external finance for education, in particular basic education; • ensuring greater predictability in the flow of external assistance; following books: Craven The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Perspective on its Development (1990) at 144 – 150; Hodgson The Human Right to Education (1998) at 211 – 213; Sepulveda The Nature of the Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2003) at 370 – 372. 440 See Limburg Principles at para 32; World Declaration on Education for All, article 10; Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, Part I at para 34. 441 CESCR General Comment No. 3: The nature of States parties obligations E/1991/23 14 December 1990 at para 13. This implies that the principle of equitable distribution of resources domestically also has meaning at the global level. 442 See reports of the Special Rapporteur from 1999-2004. 443 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education E/CN.4/2000/6 1 February 2000 at paras 13 and 15. 444 Dakar Framework at para 10. 445 Dakar Framework at para 11. 140