Education Financing

The INEE Reference Guide on External Education Financing was developed by the INEE Working Group on Education and Fragility in response to requests from education specialists for an easily accessible description of the different types of external assistance for education. 

This paper explores the extent to which post-primary education options are being financed, what approaches are being taken and the opportunities and challenges for supporting post-primary education in the future.

The event was organized by the INEE Working Group on Education and Fragility, which was established in early 2008 as an interagency mechanism to coordinate diverse initiatives and catalyze collaborative action on education and fragility.

This paper aims to provide an easily accessible introduction to the various types of funding modalities used in situations of fragility to resource education services.

Education Cannot Wait (ECW) is the first global fund dedicated to education in emergencies and protracted crises.

When conflict or crisis erupts, the educational needs of children and youth are often the last consideration – an afterthought following food, water, shelter and protection.

This 2013 analysis by the Global Education Cluster shows that an estimated 5.4 million beneficiaries missed out on education support due to under-funding of education in humanitarian appeals.

This paper outlines the potential operation of Education Cannot Wait, a fund designed to transform the global education sector for children affected by crises.

This report reviews the financing efforts for the education sector in developing countries during the past decade and assesses what will be required in the coming years to reach the basic education goals by 2030.

This toolkit has been produced by the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) in collaboration with ActionAid International (AAI) and Education International (EI), and with funding from the Global Partnership for Education (GPE).

GPE is a multi-stakeholder partnership and funding platform that aims to strengthen education systems in developing countries in order to dramatically increase the number of children who are in school and learning.

This paper describes how the humanitarian aid systems neglect the education of children and adolescents in countries affected by or emerging from conflict, and more and better targeted aid is needed.

The International Finance Facility for Education (IFFE) is a groundbreaking way to finance education in countries around the world.

This report finds that: Communities prioritise education over other needs in emergency contexts; Longer term costs of emergencies to education include estimates that reach hundreds of millions – and even billions – of dollars; and Humanitarian aid to education in emergencies is very low, with limited understanding of how this can catalyse other sources of funding.

Education is an investment. Yet around the world and in some of the poorest countries most in need of investments in basic education, more than 58 million children remain out of school. This policy brief, outlines the necessity of funding in such situations. 

This document presents the findings from a short research project commissioned by the DFID. This is the output from DFID-commissioned research into the use of pooled funding to support service delivery in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS).

This paper shows there is an annual financing gap of US$39 billion over 2015-2030 for reaching universal pre-primary, primary and secondary education of good quality in low and lower middle income countries.

This review was commissioned by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and Save the Children to better understand the landscape of donors’ humanitarian policies on education and the role such policies play in influencing education in emergencies practice.

With evidence that aid works better in countries with stronger institutions and more effective policy regimes, good governance has long been a prerequisite for investment. What does this mean for international support of the education of children living in fragile and conflict-affected settings, which are by definition settings where governance is threatened?

Following the release of the Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2018, this blog addresses the need to prioritize education financing in the global agenda.

This report, which marks the 20th anniversary of INEE, offers new data on the number of crisis-affected children and young people around the globe who are currently denied the right to education.