GPE encourages partner developing countries to allocate 20% of their national budget to education, with a significant proportion (45%) for primary education. Working with partners, GPE promotes transparent reporting of these budgetary allocations.

Partner countries have consistently shown that they increase domestic budgets dedicated to education at a faster pace than other developing countries.

Average public expenditures on education, 2002 and 2016

Read the Policy Brief: GPE's engagement on domestic financing for education

GPE receives financial contributions from donor governments and philanthropic foundations. Since 2003, it has received US$5.6 billion from 27 donors.

Share of cumulative contributions by donor - 2003 to December 2018

The following donors contribute less than 2%:

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Since 2003, GPE has provided grants totaling US$4.9 billion:

• to partner developing countries to develop and implement their education sector plans
• to civil society organizations to advocate for education for all
• to partner organizations to support research and share best practices to resolve education challenges.

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To enhance its impact in partner countries, GPE uses a results-based funding model:

• Allocations are based on countries' needs. Eligibility to receive an implementation grant is based on poverty level, education vulnerability (number of children out of school) and fragility.
• Performance is key: Eligible countries can receive 70% of their maximum allocation based on a credible education sector plan endorsed by national and international partners, the commitment to collect and analyze data to better manage their education system, and an increase in domestic spending on education up to at least 20% of the national budget. To receive the remaining 30% of the allocation, countries must demonstrate significant results in equity, efficiency, and learning outcomes.

In 2018, GPE launched a new financing and funding framework (FFF), which includes a mix of funding mechanisms to increase and leverage financing for education and deliver on the ambition of GPE 2020. The key features of the FFF are:

• Making a better case for investing in education
• Crowding-in additional financing, including through the GPE Multiplier
• Reinforcing domestic resource mobilization
• Increasing flexibility to target funds to specific geographic and thematic areas
• Creating two new innovative funding mechanisms to support global public goods:
• Knowledge and innovation exchange (KIX) to share experiences from across the partnership, scale up and fund innovative approaches to overcome policy challenges.
• Advocacy and social accountability (ASA) funding mechanism to support civil society to campaign effectively for education for all.

GPE adheres to high standards of transparency in regards to its governance, policies, financing, and program funding. We regularly publish data compliant with the standards of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) registry.

View GPE data in the IATI registry

• Consolidated financial report. 2017
• EFA-FTI Catalytic Fund annual financial update. 2017
• World Bank financial reports
• Trustee reports
• Final financial report of the GPE Secretariat trust fund. June 2017
• GPE disbursements by country (as of December 2016)

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