In early 2017, GPE's Board approved a new financing and funding framework (FFF), which positions GPE to deliver on its ambitious strategy, GPE 2020.
The framework proposes two new mechanisms to further enhance GPE's impact:
- The Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX)
- The Advocacy and Social Accountability (ASA) mechanism
Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX)
KIX's objective is to accelerate the development and adoption of solutions to policy challenges that are critical to achieving GPE 2020 and hence ensure more children are in school and learning. KIX will invest in global and regional efforts that advance relevant knowledge and innovation and translate them into strengthened education systems in partner developing countries.
KIX has 3 key objectives:
- Support adoption of cutting edge solutions to policy challenges identified as central to the delivery of GPE 2020
- Improve the capacity of partner countries to use knowledge and policy and programmatic innovations to strengthen their education systems, complementing existing GPE investments in sector planning and implementation.
- Focus on global and regional activities, public goods and peer exchange, in areas where GPE can play a unique or catalytic role because of its focus on systems, planning and inclusive policy dialogue.
KIX will have 2 funding windows:
- Knowledge, research and analytic work to support policy innovation (e.g., building tools, norms, improving data and monitoring etc.)
- Programmatic innovations that are tested/scaled in a few countries so that they are ready for scaling across the partnership.
KIX will be designed to attract non-traditional donors and to keep administrative and transaction costs low.
Advocacy and Social Accountability (ASA)
ASA aims to enhance civil society capacity to further GPE 2020 goals in learning, equity, and stronger systems, by improving its participation, advocacy and efforts to ensure transparency and increased effectiveness in national educational policy and implementation processes.
At the national level, the ASA funding mechanism will support effective civil society representation and engagement in national education sector policy dialogue, beneficiary engagement in monitoring and assessing government performance and expenditures, and social mobilization to feedback on and voice demand for improved education policy and service delivery, especially for disadvantaged groups. It will do so through two operational components: support for national civil society coalitions and social accountability grants.
At the global and transnational level, the ASA funding mechanism will help to improve mutual accountability across the partnership for education development commitments, including in the areas of aid effectiveness, domestic resource mobilization, and education policy. It will do so through transnational advocacy grants.
Design and consultation process
In December 2017, GPE's Board of Directors approved the broad architecture for the two mechanisms and delegated authority to the Strategy and Impact Committee to oversee further design work. The Board also approved four initial themes for KIX: early childhood care and education, learning assessment, gender equity and strengthening data systems, with teaching and learning, and equity and inclusion to be added later in the year.
The Secretariat will contract an external partner to operationalize the two KIX components. The Strategy and Impact Committee will retain oversight of KIX throughout the first year of operations.
The Secretariat is working with the partnership to develop the final operational details for the ASA funding mechanism, under the oversight of the Strategy and Impact Committee. A Technical Advisory Panel consisting of experts in the fields of social accountability, advocacy and grant making, will also support this design process. The first call for proposals for ASA will be launched in early 2019.
If you have any question about the process to develop KIX and ASA, please contact: information@globalpartnership.org