Replenishment

The Global Partnership for Education began a 3-year replenishment campaign in 2011. Since that time we have seen continued and reinvigorated political and financial support for basic education in developing countries.

GPE Pledging Conference in Copenhagen, November 8th, 2011

In the past 10 years, the international community has helped reduce the number of primary school-aged out-of-school children from over 100 million to 61 million. The cost of getting the remaining children into school and improving educational quality for all is small but the benefits are enormous.

In addition to our core mission of getting more children into school for a quality education, our strategic plan focuses on five core objectives for the next three years:

• improving education in fragile and conflict-affected states
• promoting girls’ education
• increasing literacy and numeracy
• training and supporting teachers, and
• financial support for education.

At the 2011 GPE Pledging Conference in Copenhagen, 60 partners gathered to show their support for education. Donor partners were encouraged to provide more predictable and effective aid, developing country partners were asked to deliver sustained levels of domestic resources for education, while the private sector, private foundations and civil society partners were asked to align their resources for efforts in the education sector.

Our goals for the Replenishment Campaign include:

• Contributions to the Global Partnership for Education Fund of US$2.5 billion over 3 years;
• Additional commitments for basic education from bilateral, private sector, civil society and multilateral organizations 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 for increased domestic financing for basic education.

So far, we have achieved:

• Contributions to the GPE Fund of over US$1.7 billion since November, 2011;
• Commitments from five bilateral partners to increase their bilateral investment in basic education;
• Pledges from private sector and civil society for basic education spending of over $2.7 billion;
• Focused policy commitments from partners to improve girls’ education, early learning outcomes and education for out-of-school children, especially in conflict-affected and fragile states
• Developing country partner commitments for their domestic education budgets of an additional US$5 billion over 2012 to 2014.