Global Partnership Replenishment 2011-14

In 2011, the Global Partnership for Education kick started a 3-year replenishment campaign to reinvigorate political and financial support for education.

In the past 10 years, the international community has helped reduce 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 our core mission of getting more children into school for a quality education, our replenishment campaign focuses on a three-pillared policy agenda that includes fragile and conflict-affected states, learning outcomes, and girls’ education.

The 2011 campaign began with a Pledging Conference in Copenhagen on November 7-8, 2011 to encourage donor partners to provide more predictable aid and developing country partners to deliver sustained levels of domestic resources for education.

Here is an overview of our 3-year replenishment campaign goals:

• 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 to 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

Contributions of US$2.5 billion to the Global Partnership for Education Fund over 3 years will achieve the following results in our developing country partners:

• An additional 25 million primary school children will enroll in school;
• The  population of out-of-school children will be reduced by 50%;
• Primary completion rates will increase by 7.5%;
• 50 million new textbooks will be distributed in classrooms;
• Training for 600,000 new teachers.

In addition, this level of funding will 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.