children in classroom

UK announces contribution of £180 million to the International Finance Facility for Education during UN General Assembly SDG Summit

Photo Credit: Annie Spratt 19 Sept 2023/NEW YORK CITY – In a significant move to bolster education and skills development, UK Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, the Rt Hon James Cleverly, announced today a series of funding commitments targeted at enhancing the international financial system and supporting developing countries to work…

student holding a newspaper

IFFEd becomes an independent organization on July 1, driving financing for global education and skills development in lower-middle-income countries

Photo: Jaikishan Patel As of July 1, 2023, IFFEd is now established and operating as a non-profit foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland. Through its innovative finance model, the newly independent organization will work in collaboration with government, non-government and philanthropic partners to scale-up more affordbale financing for quality education and skills development in lower middle…

iffed announcement

Historic first-ever International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd) launched at United Nations Transforming Education Summit

UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown presents the founding statutes of the International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd) to UN Secretary-General António Guterres to mark IFFEd’s launch at the Transforming Education Summit. Watch the video here. Photo: Ilya Savenok UN Secretary-General António Guterres and UN Special Envoy Gordon Brown launch multi-billion dollar finance facility –…

meeting

Deputy Secretary-General echoes call to operationalize International Finance Facility for Education to drive education transformation

The UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s delivered the following remarks at the Innovative Financing for Lower-Middle-Income Countries side event at the Transforming Education Pre-Summit in Paris on June 29, 2022. photo: UN/Eskinder Debebe As you know, I have regrettably joined Gordon Brown and many others on the list of those who would have wanted nothing…

meetings

UN Special Envoy Gordon Brown’s remarks at the Transforming Education Pre-Summit

UN Special Envoy for Global Education and Education Commission Chair Gordon Brown delivered the following remarks at the Transforming Financing for Education session during the Transforming Education Pre-Summit in Paris on June 29, 2022. This high-level panel examined the urgent shift in domestic and international financing needed to drive education transformation. Photo: Liesbet Steer/Education Commission…