International Financing Archives | the Education Commission

Sep 19, 2022 | Press Releases, Updates

Historic first-ever International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd) launched at United Nations Transforming Education Summit

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…

Jan 26, 2021 | Updates

The Roaring Twenties: Educating the COVID-19 generation

Education will largely determine whether the radical change of the 2020s will reduce or increase the current inequality of opportunity and wealth that characterizes the world today.

Sep 30, 2019 | Press Releases

September 30, 2019 | Breakthrough in Global Campaign to Double Education Funding for Countries Most in Need

The International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd) launches an unprecedented international effort to mobilize $5 billion of new financing for education and accelerate progress towards SDG 4: the provision of inclusive and equitable quality education and...

Nov 12, 2018 | Updates

Countries near consensus on Facility’s final design

By Liesbet Steer, Director of the Education Commission During the UN General Assembly in September, the UK Secretary of State for International Development challenged countries participating in the Commission’s Make Impossible Possible event to develop a final design...

Nov 12, 2018 | Updates

5 reasons why the International Finance Facility for Education is a smart answer

By Liesbet Steer and Pedro Alba In response to Owen Barder and Andrew Rogerson: The Center for Global Development (CGD) recently posted a blog that presented several misconceptions about the establishment of the International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd)....

Nov 12, 2018 | In the Media

Germany can lead the way to prepare the world’s next generation (Frankfurter Rundschau)

This opinion editorial was written by former Finance Minister of Nigeria Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and originally appeared in German in Frankfurter Rundschau. For decades, Germany has been a leader in improving health and combating poverty in Africa, Asia, and beyond....

Oct 12, 2018 | Updates

Support for the new International Finance Facility for Education featured in latest G20 review of global institutions

Led by the Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore Tharman Shanmugaratnam, the G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance has just published a comprehensive review of the global financial governance and new ways to deliver on the world’s important global...

Sep 24, 2018 | Updates

Make Impossible Possible: Unlocking Human Potential Through Education

At the United Nations General Assembly this year, world leaders pledged strong support for the establishment of the single largest investment in education history – the International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd). During our #MakeImpossiblePossible event,...

Sep 20, 2018 | In the Media

How Investors Can Help Ensure Every Child is in School (Financial Times)

Photo: Carolina Valenzuela/GPE From the article: “When world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly next week, the contrast between the rhetoric of co-operation and the reality of division will be stark. While the 2018 General...

May 11, 2018 | Updates

Statement from Gordon Brown on the International Finance Facility for Education

PRESS STATEMENT Over 1.5 million youth deliver a petition to United Nations backing $10 billion plan to create an International Finance Facility for Education “Value for money” innovative facility makes aid money go four times further and addresses child labour,...

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