GPE strives for more predictable aid from donor partners

In 2011, the Global Partnership for Education is conducting a replenishment campaign to ensure its continued record of success, meet the new challenges ahead and reinvigorate political and economic support for education overall.

 In the past 10 years, the international community has made real progress, decreasing the number of primary-aged out-of-school children from over 100 million to 67 million. The cost to get the remaining children around the world into school and improve educational quality for all is small – but the benefit is enormous.

 In addition to the Global Partnership for Education's core focus of getting more children into school for a quality education, the replenishment will focus on a three-pillared policy agenda to focus attention on fragile and conflict-affected states, learning outcomes, and girls’ education.

Replenishment Meeting 
The campaign will culminate with a major replenishment pledging event in Copenhagenon November 7-8, 2011 and will be built around a results-focused approach where future funding will be contingent on concrete results. Our goal is more predictable aid from donor partners and a commitment to concrete results and sustained levels of domestic resources for education from developing country partners.

Goals of the Replenishment 2011-14
In the coming 3 years, US$8 billion is necessary to meet unmet funding needs in the Global Partnership for Education developing country partners. The replenishment pledging conference will seek the following:

• Contributions to the Global Partnership for Education Fund of US $2.5 billion over 3 years;
• Bilateral, private sector, civil society and multilateral additional commitments to basic education over 3 years that help achieve the US$8 billion unmet funding needs;
• Policy commitments from all members that further key policy priorities;
• Developing country partner commitments of increased domestic financing for basic education.

Impact of the Global Partnership for Education Fund Replenishment
The Global Partnership for Education is seeking US$2.5 billion over 3 years for its pooled Global Partnership for Education Fund. In the Global Partnership developing partner countries, this level of funding will achieve:

• An additional 25 million primary school children will enroll in school;
• Halving of the population of out-of-school children;
• 7.5% increase in primary completion rates;
• 50 million new textbooks in classrooms;
• Address the global teacher shortage by training 600,000 new teachers.

In addition, this level of funding would have major secondary impacts on child and maternal health, reducing the number of children who die annually of preventable causes by one million and saving the lives of 40,000 mothers each year.