About FTI

About FTI

The Education for All - Fast-track Initiative (FTI) is a global partnership between donor and developing countries to ensure accelerated progress towards the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015. All low-income countries which demonstrate serious commitment to achieve universal primary completion can receive support from FTI.

World leaders recognized that with more than 100 million children out of school, it would be impossible to achieve universal primary education without drastic efforts. In response, in 2002, the Education for All – Fast Track Initiative (FTI) was created as the first ever global compact on education, to help low-income countries achieve a free, universal basic education by 2015.

The FTI “compact”, based on mutual accountability, aims to provide the incentives and resources to empower poor nations to build and implement sound education plans. Developing nations are responsible for taking ownership of crafting national education plans, with budget accountability and a greater commitment of political and financial resources, while donor nations commit to providing the additional technical know-how and funding required ensuring that no nation that met its obligations would fail for lack of resources or technical capacity.

Through the Fast Track Initiative, all involved partner countries and agencies coordinate at both national and international levels to ensure greater donor harmonization, knowledge sharing and resource mobilization. Globally, FTI encompasses all major donors for education: more than 30 bilateral, regional and international agencies and development banks. At its inception, FTI was created as an instrument to help low-income countries close four gaps: finance, policy, capacity and data. In addition to increasing resources, FTI is helping to address the other gaps through support for the development of comprehensive sector wide education plans and by strengthening efforts to better track progress towards the EFA goals, including for example primary completion rates.

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