Overview May 2012

Douglas LehmanGlobal Partnership for Education

Girls’ Education focal point

Overview

Mission

Supporting our developing country partners to:

get all their children into school,

for a longer time,

for a better education,

especially for girls and

particularly in fragile states.

46 Developing Country Partners

Afghanistan, Albania, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, HondurasKenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao PDR, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Moldova, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia

30 Bilateral, Regional, and International

Agencies and Development Banks

Civil Society and Teachers

Private Foundations and Private Sector

Partners

Recent Internal Reform• Partner Representation: Constituency-based

Board of Directors

• Strategic Focus: Increase support for fragile states; Improve learning outcomes through quality education; Increase support to girls' education; Reduce the number of out-of-school children

• Funding: The Global Partnership for Education Fund with 4 ‘windows’; and more predictable funding based on a 3-year Needs and Performance Framework

The Compact:Mutual Accountability

Developing Country Governments

• Sound education plans through broad based consultations

• Commitment to education through strong domestic support

• Demonstrate results on key performance indicators

Donors and Partners

• Help mobilize resources and make them more predictable

• Align with country development priorities

• Harmonize procedures as much as possible

UNGEI – GPE collaboration

NEED

UNGEI T/A AVAILABLE

GPE OPPORTUNITY

Board of Directors Meeting9 – 10 November 2011 | Copenhagen,

Denmark page 8

NEED

• Countries where Primary Completion Rate (PCR) for girls is inferior to that of boys

• Countries where PCR is low for both genders

• Countries where girls’ transition rate to lower secondary is markedly lower than that of boys

Board of Directors Meeting9 – 10 November 2011 | Copenhagen,

Denmark page 9

UNGEI T/A AVAILABLE

• Countries where UNGEI has identified in-country technical expertise that is willing to represent UNGEI in education sector discussions (meetings, thematic working groups, Joint Sector Reviews, etc.)

GPE OPPORTUNITYIndicative Allocation

Implementation

Allocation DecisionEducation

Program Development

Education Plan

Development

Monitoring

Local Education

Group (LEG)

Thank You

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