Half of the world’s children live in countries where the quality of education is so poor that large numbers of 10-year-olds cannot read an entire sentence – despite having attended school for several years.
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 –…
Transforming Education Global Education is in crisis. Today nearly 300 million children don’t go to school, more than 80% of whom are found in low-income countries, and 800 million young people will leave school without any qualifications. Recent data shows that global learning poverty in low- and middle-income countries is estimated to have risen to…
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…
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…
World leaders will soon have a historic opportunity to tackle the global learning crisis and ensure all young people have the education and skills they need to fulfil their potential. Photo: Office of President Paul Kagame Education financing will be a crucial element of the Transforming Education Summit in September, which will be led by…
The world is facing multiple crises all at once. The effects of the pandemic, catastrophic debt, the climate emergency, growing food and fuel shortages, and now the impact of the Ukraine war. What we need is an international development finance system that’s up to the job of tackling these issues. Instead, what we’ve got are…
Following several years of design and development with donors and MDBs, the International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd) is being registered in Geneva and will launch at the Transforming Education Summit in September 2022, as called for by the UN Secretary-General and other global leaders. The development process to date has been led by the…
This is the first in a series of pieces from the past that will tell the story of IFFEd’s development. The press release below was originally issued on September 26, 2018. Photos: Lana Wong/Education Commission NEW YORK, September 26, 2018 – On Monday, as the United Nations General Assembly started, world leaders pledged strong support…