Aid Effectiveness

The Global Partnership for Education has strongly adhered to the principles of aid and development effectiveness agreed on in Paris (2005) and Accra (2008) and reinforced in Busan ( 2011) to boost its impact and achieve results in the education sector.

The Global Partnership country-led model works effectively. By joining the Global Partnership, developing countries, donors, international organizations, civil society, the private sector, and private foundations commit to development effectiveness. With so many players operating with different rules and regulations, adequate coordination of all partners is essential to improve the effectiveness of education investments. This commitment means a country-led process that supports developing country partner governments to plan effectively for results, take the lead on delivery, and effectively manage their finances while being supported by predictable and timely disbursements from donor partners.

This is why the international development community has agreed on 5 principles, which the Global Partnership for Education uses as a foundation to make its education aid more effective in the following ways:

• Country ownership: The Global Partnership for Education provides support to its developing country partners to design, implement, and monitor education plans. Partner governments provide adequate domestic financing for education and improve their country systems;
• Alignment: Funding by the Global Partnership and the donors is aligned to the public financial management and procurement systems of the partner country;
• Harmonization: the Global Partnership for Education encourages donors, multilateral organizations, and civil society organizations to coordinate their work, and ensure that external funding is harmonized among the donors and aligned to the country systems;
• Managing for results: the Global Partnership encourages partners to track progress of the education plan implementation;
• Mutual Accountability: The Global Partnership for Education ensures that 'mutual accountability' principles are applied and that all partners in a country's education sector are accountable for their actions.

The Global Partnership for Education supports aid effectiveness at both the country and global level. Here is an overview of related programs and activities: