With funding of at least $5 billion over five years, leveraging resources and targeting them where they will have the most transformative impact, GPE can catalyze real change. Here’s how a fully funded GPE will deliver a disproportionate impact that goes far beyond transforming education for every boy and girl in 90 lower-income countries and territories.
GPE recently launched a bold new strategic plan for 2021–2025 and a $5 billion replenishment campaign for the same period.
But what can we achieve with $5 billion?
With at least $5 billion over five years, by 2025 we can:
We know we can achieve these objectives based on our experience and achievements over almost two decades.
For example in Nepal, Barsha, a 12-year-old girl, has been able to go to school. Girls from Dalit communities often do not enroll in school or eventually drop out due to costs associated with schooling, or to get married and help with household chores.
But with the support of targeted programs and funding from GPE and other partners, Nepal is giving marginalized children a chance at a brighter future. Since 2016, the number of out-of-school children has decreased by 60%.
A fully funded GPE can help close the learning gap between vulnerable students and their more privileged peers in countries like Guyana. Students and teachers in the hinterland and riverine regions lacked training and material to support learning for the youngest students.
With GPE’s support, teachers in selected schools received training on how to teach young learners. Textbooks, reading books, blocks, playdough, and other materials aligned with the curriculum were also distributed.
Parents were targeted in a media campaign and received training on how to support their children’s learning at home. Observed results indicate positive improvements in learning as the entire communities come together to support the early education of their children.
Efficient spending of education financing can result in gains for the country. With support from GPE, Kenya reformed its textbook procurement system resulting in a 70% saving on procurement and distribution costs. Within two years, Kenya was able to meet its long-term policy of one textbook for every child.
GPE’s approach to transforming education at a system level can produce results at scale that have the potential to generate impact for generations to come. By making ambitious pledges to GPE, leaders are raising their hands to protect past gains, pursue future progress and unlock every child’s full potential.
Beyond 2025, a fully funded GPE can result in:
Together we can create a more peaceful, secure, sustainable, and equal world for all, powered by education.
The ripple effects of investing in education systems now will help us overcome the greatest challenges in our increasingly interconnected future. A fully funded GPE can boost partner countries’ efforts to capitalize on the opportunities of the 21st century to equip populations with the skills and knowledge they need to weather uncertainty such as the next pandemic, wars or natural disasters.
The world is being dramatically redefined by common threats to our survival, from conflicts to climate change and health emergencies. By investing in the world’s most powerful asset – its children and young people – we can simultaneously accelerate the fight to end poverty, prevent climate change, save lives and create a better common future for all.
More than 90% of financing for education comes from domestic sources. But with the largest parts of domestic education budgets tied up in recurring costs, such as teacher salaries and school infrastructure, some countries are left with as little as 1% to support reform and spark the change they want to see.
GPE funds, while a small proportion of overall education budgets, provide a critical boost to the discretionary finance available for governments to take bold steps towards change.
$5 billion would represent nearly one-third of discretionary finance available to education ministries in low-income partner countries today.
Millions of children’s futures are at stake. We must invest now to transform education systems and create the world we want. If we do not, we would allow entrenched education inequalities to worsen, deny quality learning to a generation of children, and forsake progress toward all Sustainable Development Goals.
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GPE is calling on world leaders to “Raise Your Hand” and pledge at least $5 billion for the next five years to help GPE transform education in up to 90 countries and territories, which are home to more than 1 billion children.
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