Over the past decade, high-level advocates for improving support to education programs in developing countries have been few and far between. But throughout that period, Gordon Brown, former UK Prime Minister, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, has had a consistent message: Education is one of the best development investments possible ...

From their pronouncements, it appears policy makers understand the centrality of education to development; but with only a few exceptions donors have failed to match those high sounding statements with commensurate investments. We can hope that the success of the kickoff for pledging for the Global Partnership for Education – donors pledged $1.5 billion of ...

I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all of our partners as we approach the end of what has been an extremely busy and successful year. Without your commitment, support and time the Global Partnership for Education would be merely a shadow of its current self. ...

Last week the Global Partnership for Education allocated seven grants totaling $168 million to support the implementation of national education plans in Afghanistan, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Moldova, Mongolia and Timor Leste. This new financing for education will bring concrete results, including helping to build and rehabilitate schools in Cote D’Ivoire after 10 years of political instability, put girls into school in remote rural areas of Afghanistan and include more children with special needs in pre-school programs in Moldova ...