Looking back at a successful year 2011 for the Global Partnership for Education

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. In May we held the first meeting of the newly-constituted Board in ...

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Financing for education: It’s not (just) about the money

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 ...

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Reporting on Copenhagen: A big step forward for education

Earlier last month, representatives from more than 50 countries met in Copenhagen at the first ever Global Partnership for Education Pledging Conference. With so much on the line for out of school children in low income countries, education advocates around the world collectively held their breath to see what these world leaders would deliver. I ...

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I am an education optimist. Are you, too?

'Smart aid invests in children', stated Queen Rania of Jordan in her speech during the opening ceremony of the 4th High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4). H.E. Lee Myung-bak, President of the Republic of Korea, powerfully illustrated that: 'People often ask me what the key to Korea's success was. Without any hesitation, I say that ...

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A village may raise a child, but only a partnership can deliver quality education for all children.

As the leaves change their color to every shade of red and yellow, and the air becomes cooler every day here Washington, DC we embrace and adapt to these natural changes. Fall is here, and as it progresses, the days will shorten, and the trees will soon shed the last of their leaves with winter ...

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