Resources

IFFEd Explainer

Learn more about this public-philantropic partnership and why it is a smart investment to supercharge education financing

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IFFEd Annual Report (2024)

A Generation Of Possibilities: Turning Millions Into Billions To Educate The World’s Children And Youth

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McKinsey: How philanthropy can rewire education financing (2026)

2026 report from McKinsey and the International Education Funders Group (IEFG) highlights that philanthropy can rewire how education is financed; using IFFEd as a notable case study (pg 15).

Grants will never address the scale or structure of the nearly $100bn annual financing gap in education and neither will philanthropy alone but: “If philanthropies globally provided guarantees equivalent to just 1 percent of their endowments, they could unlock as much as $21 billion in additional concessional loans for education in low- and middle-income countries.”

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The International Finance Facility: A proposal to optimize MDB balance sheets in the short to medium term (2022)

Read the paper on the IFF – the innovative guarantee model developed by the Education Commission – and proposal to maximize MDB balance sheets in the short to medium term

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Save Our Future: Averting an education catastrophe for the world’s children (2020)

Read this evidence-based roadmap for action to avert an education catastrophe produced as part of the #SaveOurFuture campaign with contributions from more than 200 global researchers and endorsements from more than 80 civil society organisations.

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The Learning Generation: Investing in education for a changing world (2016)

Read the Education Commission’s landmark 2016 report that recommended the creation of IFFEd to help transform education and close the massive education funding gap in lower-middle-income countries

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