Alice Albright, CEO of the Global Partnership for Education met with Hans-Joachim Fuchtel, German Parliamentary State Secretary, and leaders of major civil society organizations in Berlin on January 30, 2014.

Germany is a valuable partner in the Global Partnership for Education since 2005 when it joined the Global Partnership as a donor partner. As of December 2013, Germany had contributed close to $45 million to the GPE Trust Fund.

Germany also supports the BACKUP Initiative – Education in Africa  which provides support to governments and civil society partners to avoid bottlenecks during the application for and use of GPE education grants. BACKUP Education has supported more than 60 activities in more than 20 countries and regions.  The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) has also commissioned with a new Sector Programme Numeracy dedicated to promoting numeracy in pre-school and early grades and hosts monthly numeracy webinars.