FACING THE CHALLENGES OF DATA, FINANCING AND FRAGILITY

2

The number of developing country partners in GPE keeps increasing

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 20130

10

20

30

40

50

60

7

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19

28

3336

40

4446

54

59

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In GPE developing partner countries…..

4

…the average primary completion rate is on the rise

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 201140

45

50

55

60

65

70

75

80

53

72

64

78

58

75

Girls Boys Total

Pe

rce

nt

Source: GPE compilation based on data of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (database), Montreal, http://www.uis.unesco.org.

5

…the share of out-of-school children of primary-school age declined

Source: Estimates of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 201115

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

39

24

45

27

34

21

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6

… the rate of lower secondary school completion rate improved

Source: GPE compilation based on data of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (database), Montreal, http://www.uis.unesco.org.

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 201120

25

30

35

40

45

50

26

40

33

47

30

44

Girls Boys Total

Pe

rce

nt

7

…. improving learning outcomes remain a challenge

Source: Estimates from the Education for All Global Monitoring Report Team

180 million children in GPE partner countries

43

57

80

 Children that reach grade 4 without learn-ing

Children that do not reach grade 4

Children that reach grade 4 and learn the basics

8

… fragile and conflict affected countries (FCAC) make slower progress

Source: GPE calculations based on UNESCO Institute for Statistics (database), Montreal

Primary Completion Rate

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 201140

45

50

55

60

65

70

75

80

85

90

52

6866

87

58

75

GPE FCAC partners

GPE non-FCAC partners

All GPE developing-country partners

Pe

rce

nt

9

… budget resources allocated to education have improved

Source: GPE compilation based on UNESCO Institute for Statistics (database)

2000 201114.5

15

15.5

16

16.5

17

17.5

18

18.5

15.8

18.2

Share of public expenditure on education in the total public expenditure (%)

10

But challenges remain...

11

The share of primary education in public education expenditure is declining

Source: GPE compilation based on UNESCO Institute for Statistics (database)

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 201138

40

42

44

46

48

50

52

54

51

44

Primary education expenditures as % of total public education expendi-tures

12

Aid to education is decreasing

Total Official Development Assistance to Education (US$ billion)

2010-2011

Commitments – 15.8%

Disbursements - 6.3%

Source: GPE compilation based on OECD Data Lab (database)Calculations include include DAC countries, multilateral donors, non-DAC countries (Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates), and private donors (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). Percentage changes calculated for amounts in constant 2011 US dollars.

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 20112.0

4.0

6.0

8.0

10.0

12.0

14.0

16.0

18.0

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9.2

12.5

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