IBRD Trust Funds - World Bank

Purpose

This grant represents Canada’s institutional support to the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). The GPE uses these funds, along with other donors’ funding, to achieve its mandate. The GPE is the main multilateral funding mechanism focused on basic education in developing countries. It aims to mobilize global and national efforts to contribute to the achievement of equitable, quality education and learning for all, through inclusive partnership, with a focus on effective and efficient education systems and increased financing. The GPE’s strategic goals include: improved and more equitable learning outcomes; increased equity, gender equality and inclusion; and effective and efficient education systems. It provides a platform for coordination among bilateral donors, developing countries, multilateral institutions and civil society organizations. The GPE also fosters mutual accountability, shares knowledge about best practices and encourages transparency at all levels. Some program activities include: (1) providing country-level funding to increase children’s access to education; (2) supporting education sector plans that focus on increasing the quality of teaching and the number of qualified teachers; (3) providing appropriate reading materials to children; and (4) assessing the volume of financing to education at the global and country levels.