The Partnership is a Good Investment

The Global Partnership for Education gets more children into school, for a longer time and for a better education

The Global Partnership for Education is the only multilateral mechanism focused on funding the early years of primary and early secondary education.

Since 2003, we’ve seen real impact: the Partnership has helped put 19 million more children into school, supported the construction of over 30,000 classrooms and trained over 337,000 teachers. The Global Partnership for Education gets more children into school, for a longer time and for a better education, especially for girls.

Since 2003 the Global Partnership has fundamentally transformed international cooperation in education and:

• Helped its developing country partners set up quality national education plans;
• Coordinated donors' action and investments at the country level;
• Injected US$2.1 billion to date in direct trust fund support and ensured that external financing flows are coordinated to reduce aid dependency;
• Increased domestic financing for education by 6% annually.