Global Partnership for Education - Institutional Support - 2015-2018

This grant represents Canada’s institutional support to the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). The GPE uses these funds along with other donors’ funding to achieve its mandate. The GPE is the main multilateral funding mechanism focused on basic education in developing countries. The mission of the GPE is to galvanize and coordinate a global effort to deliver good quality education to all girls and boys prioritizing the poorest and most vulnerable. The GPE has four strategic goals: access for all learning for all reaching every child and building for the future. It provides a platform for coordination among bilateral donors and multilateral institutions. The GPE also fosters mutual accountability shares knowledge about best practices and encourages transparency at all levels. Some program activities include: (1) providing country-level funding to ensure that all children have access to education; (2) supporting education sector plans that focus on increasing the quality of teaching and the number of qualified teachers; (3) providing appropriate reading materials; and (4) assessing the volume of financing to education at the global and country level.

The expected outcomes as stated by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) project include: (1) expanded volume effectiveness efficiency and equitable allocation of external and domestic funding and support to education in GPE-endorsed countries; (2) teacher effectiveness is improved by training recruiting and retaining teachers and by supporting them to provide a good quality education; (3) enrolment progress and learning of primary and lower secondary school girls is tracked by GPE partners; (4) gender responsive Education Sector Plans are developed by the government; (5) fragile and conflict-affected states are better able to develop and implement their education plans; and (6) national systems have the capacity and integrity to deliver support and assess quality education for all.