EFA-FTI: Education Program Development Fund (EPDF)

Results achieved as of August 2013 include: The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) has worked closely with its partners to improve access to basic education for children in developing countries. It also works to ensure that children have better success in school. In GPE countries the percentage of children completing primary school rose from 56% to 71% between 2000 and 2011. In the same period the GPE has helped put 23 million more children in primary school decreasing the percentage of children who were out of school from 34% to 18%. 68% of girls in GPE countries now finish school compared to 56% in 2002. In six GPE partner countries (The Gambia Guinea Guinea-Bissau Mozambique Nepal and Senegal) the literacy rate among young women increased by more than 15% between 2000 and 2010. The GPE has now endorsed Education Sector Plans or Interim Sector Plans in 58 countries. The developing country governments write the plans and donors the GPE and civil society organizations ensure that their activities support the countries’ plan. This is aid effectiveness in action. The GPE has also been successful in encouraging developing country partner governments to increase their domestic budgets for education. These results have contributed to increasing progress toward the goal of achieving universal primary education for all.