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Executive summary

The Global Partnership for Education (the “Global Partnership,” or “GPE”) believes
that education is a fundamental right for all children and is essential to achieving all of the Millennium Development Goals. Investing in education is the single most effective means of reducing poverty: if all children in low-income countries could read, it is estimated that poverty would drop by 12 percent. In addition, educating girls and women is the most effective investment for achieving long-term health benefits for a nation, thereby saving the lives of mothers and babies and creating healthier, stronger families.

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Since its inception in 2002, the Global Partnership has been devoted to getting all children everywhere into school for a good education. It has achieved impressive results since 2002, including putting an additional 19 million children in school, training 413,000 teachers, constructing more than 37,000 classrooms, providing 218 million textbooks, and achieving higher school completion rates for boys and girls.

This strategic plan builds on those achievements and sets out the long-term vision, mission, strategic goals, and core strategies of the Global Partnership. Our vision is “a good quality education for all children, everywhere, so they fulfill their potential and contribute to their societies,” and our mission is “to galvanize and coordinate a global effort to deliver a good quality education to all girls and boys, prioritizing the poorest and most vulnerable.”

The Global Partnership has four strategic goals (see boxes in the graphic presentation) to achieve this vision, goals that focus on the key building blocks of access, quality, equity, and strong national education systems.

Following from those four goals, the Global Partnership has set five targeted objectives for the period of 2012–2015 to address the major and immediate barriers to achieving our longer-term goals. Our objectives articulate what the Global Partnership will do over the next three years as we focus on fragile states, girls’ education, early-grade learning (particularly reading and numeracy), resources for education, and improvement of teaching. Progress will be tracked and assessed against the strategic goals and five objectives. The indicators included in the plan to track our goals and objectives are to be used as markers to guide policy making and decision making, as well as for advocacy.

This plan is a living document and will be regularly reviewed for relevance and practicality, including the indicators contained herein.

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Introduction

The Global Partnership for Education is unique. It is the only global partnership among governments, civil society, international institutions, teachers, and the private sector devoted to getting all children—everywhere— into school for a good quality education.

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The importance of education and partnership

All children have a right to a good education. Education is also essential to achieving the MDGs and is one of the underlying links between each of the goals. A growing and overwhelming body of evidence documents the positive effect of education, including in the areas of maternal and child health, poverty reduction, economic growth, and social stability, all of which are key elements of the MDGs.

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Part 1. The longer term

Although this plan is for the period from 2012 to 2015, the Global Partnership’s vision, mission, and strategic goals will extend further into the future and will contribute to any international commitment to development beyond the 2015 MDGs.

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Part 2. Planning cycle for 2012–2015

The Global Partnership has identified five objectives for 2012 to 2015 that are critical to achieving its longer-term goals.

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Annexes

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