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Global Campaign for Education

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Development Education Sustainable Development Financing for Development: Increasing financial and technical cooperation for development Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development Mobilizing international resources for development Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Advocacy and outreach Millennium Development Goals Policy advice Sustainable Development: Capacity-building Education Indicators Institutional arrangements
Geographic scope:	International
Country of activity:	Belgium Italy Sudan Somalia Benin Haiti Argentina Armenia United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Lesotho United Republic of Tanzania Honduras Mauritius Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Cameroon Japan Eswatini Lebanon Senegal Democratic Republic of the Congo India United States of America Viet Nam State of Palestine Afghanistan Liberia Portugal Nepal Nigeria Netherlands Malawi Pakistan Burkina Faso Romania Mexico France Zimbabwe Ecuador Cape Verde Spain Bangladesh Peru Gambia Guatemala Jordan Yemen Ireland Congo Cambodia Guinea Bissau Paraguay Mozambique Philippines Austria Solomon Islands Chile Mongolia Albania Germany Canada Iraq Madagascar Niger Vanuatu Norway Colombia Dominican Republic Djibouti Indonesia Costa Rica Angola Zambia Sweden Morocco Timor-Leste Sri Lanka Uganda Mali Nicaragua Georgia Switzerland Papua New Guinea Ethiopia Togo Kenya Egypt Brazil Australia Côte D'Ivoire Burundi Ghana Denmark Rwanda Sierra Leone
Millennium Development Goals:	Achieve universal primary education
Mission statement:	The Global Campaign for Education promotes education as a basic human right, mobilizes public pressure on governments and the international community to fulfil their promises to provide free, compulsory public basic education for all people, in particular for children, women and all disadvantaged, deprived sections of society.The campaign is driven by the conviction that quality education for all is achievable, and by the concern for immense cost of failure. GCE believes that in an increasingly knowledge-based economy, exclusion from education will translate into growing poverty, inequality and deprivation. The Global Campaign for Education commits itself to achieve its mission with objectivity, transparency and accountability and to follow democratic norms and processes in all its plans and actions. GCE believes education is: A universal human right; The key to poverty alleviation and sustainable human development; A core responsibility of the state; Achievable if governments mobilize the political will and available resources. GCE calls for: . Free and compulsory, quality public basic education for all children, for at least eight years; . Increased provision of quality early childhood education and care; . The eradication of adult illiteracy and a second chance to learn for youth and adults who miss out on formal schooling; . An end to child labour; . Democratic participation of, and accountability to, civil society, including teachers and their unions, in education decision making at all levels; . Reform of International Monetary Fund and World Bank policies to ensure they support rather than undermine free, quality public basic education; . Fair and regular salaries for teachers, properly equipped classrooms and a supply of quality textbooks; . Inclusive and non-discriminatory provision of services for all; . The mobilisation of political will and new resources in support of National Education plans to realise the EFA Goals, including adequate public expenditure of at least 6 % of GNP, and substantially increased aid and debt relief for the poorest countries.
Year established:	1999
Year of registration:	2006
Organizational structure:	The Supreme Authority of the Global Campaign for Education is the World Assembly of GCE's members. The World Assembly elects the GCE Board of 16 members. The Board appoints the Secretariat to implement the decisions of the World Assembly, under the oversight of the Board.
Number and type of members:	80 national coalitions, 13 regional organisations or networks, 16 international organisations or networks
Funding structure:	Membership fees or dues Foreign and international grants Funds from other Non-Governmental Organizations

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