Almost half of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) partner countries are affected by conflict and fragility. This brief report presents how GPE helps them strengthen and rebuild their education systems during and after a crisis so children's education is not interrupted.

GPE (Global Partnership for Education) works with governments to include refugee children and youth in national education systems and helps strengthen capacity and resources to meet the education needs of refugee children. Refugees have access to public schools in 20 of GPE's partner countries, where GPE is supporting governments to build more…

The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) is strongly committed to ensuring quality education for children living in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. GPE convenes partners and mobilizes funds to help governments in 90 lower-income countries build and finance strong and sustainable education systems that deliver quality learning to more…

The Global Partnership for Education's (GPE) interest in broader education workforce issues is situated within the context of the partnership's current strategic plan (GPE 2025), which recognizes "quality teaching" as a priority area within a wider system transformation agenda. GPE's work includes providing technical support in this area…

Better data is needed on disability in Global Partnership for Education (GPE) partner countries to understand the extent to which children with disabilities are excluded from education, so that countries can make evidence-based and inclusive education policy and plans, and progress can be monitored globally. As part of its work helping to build…

Addressing the equity and learning crisis in education requires resolute efforts to strengthen national systems. This includes efforts by development partners to improve development cooperation practices with more alignment of aid for education with national systems. Alignment provides unique opportunities to strengthen national systems for the…

Driving education system transformation is at the heart of how GPE works and GPE 2025 will help partner countries achieve change by leveraging global and national relationships in support of their priority reforms and activities. GPE 2025 is the strategic plan for the partnership covering five years, 2021 to 2025. The plan is aligned with and…

GPE helps partner countries improve the quality of education by empowering teachers and ensuring they are well trained, qualified and motivated. Quality teaching is a priority area in GPE 2025, the partnership's strategic plan, which highlights the critical role of teachings in building effective and efficient education systems. [For "GPE…

The business and foundation communities are a vital part of GPE, bringing in-kind strategic capabilities and philanthropic financial co-investment to the drive to transform education systems in lower-income countries.

GPE promotes alignment of aid with partner countries' systems as part of its commitment to transform education systems and better mobilize resources for sustainable results. Our new operating model helps identify opportunities for greater alignment as part of requirements for the development of partnership compacts.

Every girl deserves a quality education and every country deserves gender equality. In December 2020, Global Partnership for Education (GPE) created the US $250 million Girls' Education Accelerator to transform girls' opportunities to go to school and learn. To secure funding, countries commit to ambitious action for gender equality by investing…

Education drives gender equality which is key to creating a more peaceful, prosperous, healthy and sustainable world. But for education to fulfill its potential, both girls and boys must equally benefit from it. This brief provides information on the gender equality challenge, the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) approach, why gender…

The global learning crisis continues to threaten the future of millions of children and derail economic progress in low-income countries. While noteworthy progress has been made and significantly more children are in school and learning, the learning crisis is increasing due to population growth, education system challenges, natural disasters and…

Global Partnership for Education (GPE), the largest global fund dedicated to transforming education, now offers the GPE Match. Through the GPE Match, GPE will double qualifying philanthropic investments made in education in GPE partner countries by the business community or private foundations. That doubles the impact on getting more girls and…

Although more girls than ever go to school today, 129 million girls worldwide are still denied an education. Educating girls generates huge dividends for economic prosperity, gender equality, climate resilience, public health, and lasting peace and stability. GPE believes that all girls should be educated, healthy and safe, and it has taken bold…