Meeting Education Challenges

	Half of children in the lowest-income countries can’t read anything at the end of grade 2
	The Global Partnership for Education Solution Ensure that quality concerns are integrated into national education plans in order to promote a “surge in learning” to match the “surge in access” that has taken place in the past decade; Develop coherent, evidence-based packages to improve reading skills that countries could use; Support the Global Partnership for Education developing country partners in assessing reading, and monitoring progress in quality; Identify the potential impact of incentives on reading achievement, using a results-based approach (school grants, teacher grants, etc.) which will be explored in conjunction with teacher support.
	42% of the world’s 67 million out-of-school children live in fragile or conflict-affected states
	The Global Partnership for Education Solution Proactively seek to support countries with large numbers of out-of-school children, many of which are conflict-affected; Provide additional financing to conflict-affected countries, improve the predictability of its delivery and reward good performance based on progress against mutually-agreed, context-specific results; Increase technical engagement to support the development of sound education plans and improve coordination in the education sector.
	Of the 67 million out-of-school children, 36 million are girls
	The Global Partnership for Education Solution Provide strong incentives, as well as both technical and financial support to developing country partners to include gender-responsive strategies in their education plans; Support the enrollment of out-of-school girls into primary, and ensure that girls make the crucial transition to and through secondary school; Support countries to undertake systematic and targeted evaluations of progress in girls’ participation, retention and learning.

Last Modified: May 15, 2012