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.

Global AIDS Alliance

The mission of the Global AIDS Alliance (GAA), founded in 2001, is to halt the global AIDS crisis and mitigate its impacts on poor countries hardest hit by the pandemic. GAA plays a critical role in shaping the AIDS policy debate and catalyzing campaigns to speed the pace of the global response to HIV/AIDS. GAA has achieved considerable success in increasing funding and influencing AIDS policy — earning a well-deserved reputation for holding decision-makers accountable and encouraging concerned citizens to demand political action.

ONE Campaign

Cofounded by Bono and other campaigners, ONE is nonpartisan grassroots campaign and advocacy organization. ONE works closely with policy experts, African leaders, and anti-poverty activists to mobilize public opinion in support of tested and proven methods for tackling poverty. ONE holds world leaders to account for the commitments they’ve made to fight extreme poverty and campaigns for better development policies, more effective aid and trade reform.

Center for Universal Education

Founded in 2002 by Gene Sperling, the Center for Universal Education (CUE) is the first center at a major think tank focusing exclusively on the provision of quality, universal basic education among the world’s poorest children. Sperling and the center’s recommendations have been particularly influential in the development of the bipartisan Education for All Act of 2007, the strengthening of the Education for All Fast Track Initiative (FTI), the UK’s major expansion of basic education funding under Gordon Brown’s leadership, the recommendations of the UN Millennium Task Force Report on Education and Gender Equity, and strengthening the overall global aid architecture for education.

National Education Association (NEA)

In 1857, one hundred educators answered a national call to unite as one voice in the cause of public education. In 1966, NEA joined forces with the American Teachers Association. Since then, NEA has increased to 3.2 million members, and what was once a privilege for a fortunate few, public education, is now an essential right for every American child, regardless of family income or place of residence. NEA’s mission is to advocate for education professionals and to unite its members and the nation to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.

UNESCO Global Monitoring Report

In 2000, at the World Education Forum in Dakar (Senegal), 164 countries committed themselves to achieve six goals by 2015 that would vastly improve learning opportunities for children, youth and adults. International agencies pledged that no country engaged in this effort would be hindered by a lack of resources. Governments recognized that regular and rigorous monitoring was required to track progress towards the six goals, identify strategies that make a difference and hold governments and donors to account for their promises.

Journey with an Afghan School

By collaborating with highly-skilled American development workers, who are committed to serving the poor, speaking the local language, knowing the people, and understand their needs and concerns, the American Friendship Foundation (AFF) is an organization founded in 1995 to encourage and promote cross-cultural friendship and goodwill in developing nations. AFF partners develop programs that address pressing human need for clean water, education, health care, and economic opportunities.

Women Faith and Development Alliance

The Women, Faith, and Development Alliance (WFDA), a unique campaign of internationally focused faith, development, and women’s organizations, is a powerful new force dedicated to engendering global efforts to reduce poverty by increasing political will and action to increase investments in women’s and girls’ empowerment around the world. WFDA is focused on one ‘big idea’: to join women and men in international faith, development and women’s organizations to mobilize around the bold moral imperative of ending global poverty and empowering women and girls.

Initiatives

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.

UNESCO High Level Group on Education for All

A High-Level Group on Education for All convenes annually by Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO. It brings together some thirty Ministers of Education and of International Cooperation, heads of development agencies and civil society representatives. Its role, as stated in the Dakar Framework for Action (paragraph 19), is to sustain and accelerate the political momentum created at the World Education Forum and serve as a lever for resource mobilization.

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.