Global Partnership for Education

The Most Important in Brief

1. Goals

   Our vision A quality education for every child Our mission To mobilize partnerships and investments that transform education systems in lower-income countries, leaving no one behind Our goal To accelerate access, learning outcomes and gender equality through equitable, inclusive and resilient education systems fit for the 21st century

2. Funding Policy

   For two decades, GPE has been delivering funds and supporting solutions to build strong and resilient education systems in countries characterized by extreme poverty or conflict so that more children, especially girls, get the education they need to thrive and contribute to building a more prosperous and sustainable world. GPE brings together all partners invested in education --lower-income countries, donors, international organizations, civil society, including youth and teacher organizations, the private sector and private foundations-- to transform education systems focusing particularly on the places and people with the greatest needs. Our unique model has helped partner countries make significant progress in improving access, learning and equity, and achieve better outcomes for hundreds of millions of boys and girls.

3. Principles

   The GPE Charter enumerates 8 principles for the partnership: - Education as a public good, a human right and an enabler of other rights - Focusing our resources on securing learning, equity and inclusion for the most marginalized children and youth, including those affected by fragility and conflict - Achieving gender equality - Enabling inclusive, evidence-based policy dialogue that engages national governments, donors, civil society, teachers, philanthropy and the private sector - Providing support that promotes country ownership and nationally identified priorities, and is linked to country performance in achieving improved equity and learning - Improving development effectiveness by harmonizing and aligning aid to country systems - Promoting mutual accountability and transparency across the partnership - Acting on our belief that inclusive partnership is the most effective means of achieving development results The GPE 2025 strategy is built around 4 principles for an effective partnership: - Increased decentralized mutual accountability - Rebalanced country-level model - Strengthened national government ownership and capacities - Reduced GPE processes and transaction costs