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Our History

School children in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. Photo credit: D. Willetts (UNESCO)

School children in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya.
© UNESCO/D. Willets

The Global Partnership for Education started as the Education for All - Fast Track Initiative (EFA FTI) in 2002.

In the last ten years, we have grown from 7 to close to 60 partner countries, mobilized more than $3.5 billion to improve access and quality to education, helped nearly 23 million children go to school for the first time, supported the construction of over 37,000 classrooms, and trained over 413,000 teachers. More results.

Thanks to the Global Partnership for Education, 68% of girls in its member countries now finish primary school and 18 partner countries have achieved gender parity in enrollments or put more girls than boys in school.


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Last Modified: April 04, 2013