Partners and Initiatives

RESULTS works with many key partners and international organizations, and supports and is a member of several initiatives to promote Education for All. Below is a selection of some of our closest partners and joint efforts.

Partners

The Global Campaign for Education, founded in 1999, brings together major NGOs and teachers’ unions in more than 120 countries to promote access to education as a basic human right and to mobilize public pressure to create the political will for governments and other leaders in the international community to fulfill their promises to provide at least a free, public basic education for all children. The international secretariat headquarters is based in Johannesburg with two smaller offices in London and Washington.

Global Campaign for Education U.S. Chapter

The U.S. Chapter of the Global Campaign for Education is a broad-based coalition of more than 30 non-governmental and religious organizations, teachers unions, foundations and child advocates to promote the cause of universal basic education in the world’s poorest nations.

Basic Education Coalition

The Basic Education Coalition, formed in 2001, is a group of 19 development organizations working in more than 100 countries to improve access to quality basic education. The Coalition was formed to maximize resources brought to this endeavor, to broaden the reach of their efforts and to share experiences and lessons toward the common goal of enhancing investment in basic education. It works to increase knowledge about, raise the priority of and increase support for quality basic education for all as a means of promoting economic development and human well-being.

Initiatives

Connect to Learn

Connect To Learn aims to support access to primary and secondary education for every child in the world, with an emphasis on secondary schooling and the enhancement of the overall quality of education.  By offering secondary school scholarships and supporting schools in developing countries so that they leapfrog technologically, Connect to Learn aims make an important contribution to ensuring every girl and boy around the world gets a quality education by 2020.  Connect to Learn partners with a growing global coalition in support of a Global Fund for Education.

1GOAL

1GOAL is an initiative of the football strand of the Class of 2015 and is run by the Global Campaign for Education to mobilise support to hold world leaders to these promises for 2015.  On October 6th 2009, the 1GOAL campaign was officially launched in a satellite-linked ceremony led by the 2010 FIFA World Cup host, South Africa President Jacob Zuma.  The campaign seizes the power of football to ensure that education for all is a lasting impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.  Bringing together footballers, fans, charities, corporations and individuals, 1GOAL mobilizes supporters to lobby and achieve education for everyone.

UNGEI

The United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) was launched in 2000 by the UN Secretary-General to assist national governments as they fulfill their responsibilities towards ensuring the right to education and gender equality for all children, girls and boys alike.  UNGEI works to improve the quality and availability of girls’ education in support of the gender-related Education for All goals, the second Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to achieve universal primary education, and MDG 3 to promote gender equality and empower women.  UNGEI promotes strategies that put the needs of the most disadvantaged, including girls and women, first in education policies, plans and budgets. The UNGEI partnership works to remove barriers to learning, such as school fees and other education costs and violence in and around schools, and to support the continuation of education in emergency situations such as areas affected by armed conflict, natural disasters or external shocks, as well as in post-crisis and fragility contexts.  UNGEI advocates a cross-sectoral, holistic approach, with balanced investment in education across the life cycle, addressing early childhood education and development for children of poor families, and literacy and empowerment of women and young people.

Fast Track Initiative

In 2002, the World Bank together with a development partners launched the Education for All-Fast Track Initiative (FTI). FTI is a global partnership to help low-income countries meet the education Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the EFA goal that all children complete a full cycle of primary education by 2015.

The FTI is a platform for collaboration at the global and country levels. Through the FTI compact, developing countries commit to design and implement sound education plans while donor partners commit to align and harmonize additional support around these plans. Funding is channeled through existing bilateral and multilateral channels and also through the FTI Catalytic Fund (CF), which supports countries with insufficient resources to implement their sector plans. FTI ranks among the largest global partnerships in which the Bank is a player

Clinton Global Initiative

In 2005, President Clinton established CGI to turn ideas into action and to help our world move beyond the current state of globalization to a more integrated global community of shared benefits, responsibilities, and values. By gathering world leaders from a variety of backgrounds, CGI creates a unique opportunity to channel the capacities of individuals and organizations to realize change. To fulfill the action-oriented mission of CGI, all members devise practical solutions to global issues through the development of specific and measurable Commitments to Action.

Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)

INEE was conceived in 2000 during the World Education Forum’s Strategy Session on Education in Emergencies in Dakar during which the idea was proposed to develop a process which would improve inter-agency communication and collaboration within the context of education in emergencies. At a follow-up Inter-Agency Consultation held in Geneva in November 2000, INEE was officially founded to build upon and consolidate existing networks. The Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) is a global, open network of non-governmental organizations, UN agencies, donors, practitioners, researchers and individuals from affected populations working together within a humanitarian and development framework to ensure the right to education in emergencies and post-crisis reconstruction.

School Fee Abolition Initiative

Launched in 2005 by UNICEF and the World Bank, the School Fee Abolition Initiative (SFAI) is one of the ‘Bold Initiatives’ aiming to make a breakthrough in access to basic education and significantly scaling up progress to meet the MDGs and EFA targets in the next decade. The goal of this collaborative effort is twofold. First, it is to review, analyze and harness knowledge and experience pertaining to the impact of school fee abolition and how countries cope with the fallout from such a bold policy decision. Second, the goal is to use this knowledge and experience as the basis for providing guidance and support to selected countries as they embark on abolishing school fees.

Deworm the World

Each year, the Education Working Group of the Young Global Leaders chooses a project where they can make a unique and meaningful difference. In 2007, they chose deworming because of the evidence that deworming was an extremely cost-effective way to increase schooling and improve child health. Mass deworming programs based in schools, which is recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), costs just pennies per child. Studies prove it’s the most cost-effective way of increasing education.