Report fraud and abuse

GPE partners seek to ensure the most effective use of all resources supporting partner countries’ education goals. GPE trust fund resources are sometimes allocated for use in environments where there is high risk of misuse of funds, through fraud, corruption and other poor practices. This could lead to GPE funds being used for purposes other than that for which they were approved.

GPE has zero tolerance for misuse of funds. Partners use their existing policies to address misuse cases and secure recovery of GPE resources. The GPE Secretariat carefully monitors misuse cases with the relevant grant agents, partner countries and donors to ensure that all funds identified as misused are reimbursed.

GPE has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (SEAH) of any kind and is committed to addressing all forms of SEAH through prevention, mitigation and response.

Preventing SEAH is a shared responsibility. All partners must play an active role in reporting and addressing SEAH incidents as they occur.

The GPE Policy on protection from sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment outlines both expectations and requirements for GPE governance officials, GPE Secretariat staff and all GPE partners involved in the implementation of GPE grants to manage SEAH risk and address SEAH incidents, should they occur in the delivery of GPE program of work.

The responsible party for receiving reports and conducting investigation of SEAH incidents vary:

• The World Bank, as host of the GPE Secretariat, is responsible for addressing all SEAH incidents involving GPE Secretariat staff, and shall apply its own policies and procedures to address all SEAH incidents. Please contact @email to report incidents involving GPE Secretariat staff.
• All allegations pertaining to non-GPE Secretariat staff governance officials will be handled in accordance with the GPE Code of Ethical Conduct for Governance Officials. Please contact @email to report incidents involving governance officials.
• Grant agents have primary responsibility for investigating SEAH incidents within GPE funded programs and shall use their own policies and procedures to investigate and manage all SEAH incidents. Accordingly, grant agents are required to meet and maintain GPE’s minimum standards on SEAH. Please report SEAH incidents on GPE funded programs to the relevant grant agent using the reporting mechanisms listed below.