What People Say About the Partnership

The Global Partnership for Education has made a real impact and transformed international cooperation in education. Here's a selection of what our partners say.

Katie Malouf Bous, Oxfam's Education Policy Advisor

"Oxfam welcomes the substantial commitments made today by governments to the Global Partnership for Education totaling $1.5 bn, which will be a crucial lifeline for millions of children in poor countries who are currently denied the chance to go to school."

H.E. Stephen O'Brien, UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development

"The GPE is a great example of how both developed and developing countries can work in partnership with the private sector to lift people out of poverty... I welcome the involvement of the British learning specialists Pearson who are committing to work with the GPE to achieve results for the world’s poorest children."

The Honorable Kevin Rudd MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs

"The Global Partnership for Education, formerly the Education for All Fast Track Initiative, is, I believe, one of the best vehicles we can build to become the institution drives efforts to get that last 67 million children into school. It's the only global partnership for education and it's getting results."

The Honorable Christian Friis Bach, Danish Minister for Development Cooperation

"International financing through Global Partnership for Education and other sources can supplement domestic budgets and assist the transformation from strategies and plans to girls and boys being able to read."

H. E. Professor Abdulsalam Al-Joufi, Yemen Minister of Education

"The Global Partnership for Education has given about 50,000 disadvantaged children living in very remote areas a chance to enroll in school and helped keep in school about 100,000 children, of whom 70% are girls."

H.E. Mathias Harebamungu, Rwanda Minister of State for Primary and Secondary Education

"Support from the Global Partnership since 2007 has contributed to a transformation in our basic education sector. We are close to achieving universal primary enrolment and the percentage of children completing primary education has climbed by over 20% in just three years."

H.E. Otgonbayar Yondon, Mongolia Minister of Education

"The Global Partnership for Education has made a significant contribution to improving the lives and education quality of thousands of Mongolian children. Enrollments have increased, more teachers have been recruited and trained, and teaching and learning environments have in many cases greatly improved."

H.E. Fatou Lamin Faye, Gambia Minister of Basic and Secondary Education

"With funding from the Global Partnership for Education, we have enrolled more girls in schools and successfully attained gender parity at the basic education level. We have been able to attract and retain high- caliber teachers needed to serve in very deprived communities. Programs supported by the Global Partnership have strengthened the effort of the Ministry to break the cycle of illiteracy in schools and reduced the percentage of non-readers in grades 1 - 3 in 2009."

Last Modified: November 14, 2011