Education Support Fund

Education Support Fund is sponsored by ZB Financial Holdings. ZB Financial Holdings operates an education support fund for underprivileged schoolchildren, with a special emphasis on children who have lost both parents.

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org/funding/how-apply-grants) ### Country-led system transformation Click on an area to learn more. GPE supports countries in planning and prioritizing reforms that have the potential to achieve transformation across an education system. After assessing their education system and identifying a priority reform, partner countries can access GPE grants to make focused, evidence-based investments in programs that unlock system bottlenecks.

Grant financing is available for capacity building and program development that might be needed to identify a key education reform and align partner support. Partner countries can leverage additional external financing through the GPE Multiplier.

The system transformation grant delivers funding at scale in support of a country’s reform efforts and both it and the Multiplier can combine with the Girls’ Education Accelerator to spur progress in gender equality. Beyond support to governments, GPE also allocates grants to promote civil society’s voice and to generate new knowledge on key issues and solutions for the education sector.

* GPE implementation grant policy * Information on education sector program implementation grants * GPE finance: Frequently asked questions The **GPE operating model** is based on three stages that support countries in moving from analysis and diagnosis of education challenges to reform prioritization and resource alignment, and finally to implementation, learning and adapting Analysis of a country's performance, opportunities and obstacles under four **enabling factors** critical to support system transformation: 1) data and evidence, 2) sector coordination, 3) gender-responsive planning and 4) volume, equity and efficiency of domestic public spending on education.

The ministry of education, with its partners, prepares a **partnership compact** to align partners and resources behind a prioritized reform area. The country and its partners implement the agreed programs and reforms, tracking agreed results and adjusting as needed.

The partnership compact details the country's focus on sector bottlenecks and solutions, defines GPE's engagement and ensures that partner financing is complementary and harmonized. Partner countries perform an analysis of education system conditions based on four enabling factors that are assessed by an independent panel of experts.

GPE grants support education programs that go beyond piecemeal initiatives, generating systemwide change to put all children on the path to realizing their full potential. GPE can provide grant financing to partner countries that seek financing to make focused, evidence-based investments in education programs.

### System capacity grant The system capacity grant builds national capabilities to develop, implement and monitor education sector plans and policies. ### Program development grant The program development grant supports the design of an education program that will help a country implement a priority reform.

The GPE Multiplier crowds in investment for education by securing new and additional funding at a ratio of US$1 from the Multiplier for every US$3 from development partners and dollar-for-dollar from businesses and foundations. ### System transformation grant Using the system transformation grant, partner countries make focused, evidence-based investments in programs that unblock system bottlenecks and drive systemwide change.

### Girls’ Education Accelerator The Girls’ Education Accelerator provides resources to support gender equality in countries and regions where girls’ education has been identified as a main challenge. ### A quality education for every child All girls and boys, especially those who are marginalized by poverty, displacement or disability, are able to access 12 years of learning.

* Grant agents and coordinating agencies * Program development grant * System transformation grant * Girls’ Education Accelerator * Advocacy and social accountability grants See the full list of GPE partner countries and their grant ceilings under the GPE 2025 funding model. View deadlines for grant applications The country assesses **four enabling factors** critical to system transformation: 3. gender-responsive planning 4.

volume, equity and efficiency of domestic public spending on education. The Partnership Compact Guidelines include information about the enabling factors and how to complete the questionnaire and analysis. * Enabling factors screening questionnaire and analysis * Domestic financing matrix The partnership compact aligns partners and resources behind a prioritized education reform.

GPE recommends using the compact as a framework for all types of GPE grants, as well as to facilitate alignment between all sources of funding that contribute to education system transformation. As a best practice, countries should undertake a midterm review of the compact to assess progress on the priority reform and adjust as needed. The review also serves as the basis for GPE Board decisions on the next grant allocation.

* Partnership Compact Guidelines (PDF) * Midterm review of partnership compacts ## Grant agents and coordinating agencies Partner countries receive GPE funding through **grant agents** who are accountable for the use of the resources throughout the grant’s duration.

Governments, in consultation with the local education group, are encouraged to select a grant agent who can best assist them in a particular area supported by each GPE grant. The **coordinating agency** is designated by the country’s local education group to act as a liaison between it, the government, GPE and other development partners.

* Selection process for grant agents * Terms of reference for grant agents * GPE Secretariat checklist for grant agent selection * Terms of reference for coordinating agencies Countries can receive up to US$5 million through a system capacity grant to strengthen gender-responsive planning and policy development, mobilize coordinated action and improve government capacity to adapt and learn to drive results at scale.

The grant can also be used to develop the country’s partnership compact. Countries can refer to the system capacity grant guidelines in completing and submitting an application and budget template.

* System capacity grant guidelines * Progress report template * Completion report template ## Program development grant Countries can receive US$200,000 (or double that, in exceptional cases) for the design of an education program that will help the country implement its priority education reform. * Program development grant guidelines ## System transformation grant Countries can receive up to US$162.

5 million to finance priority programs to remove reform obstacles and drive change across the education system. Countries need to have completed the enabling factors analysis, developed a partnership compact and selected a suitable grant agent. They can also apply for a GPE Multiplier grant and (if eligible) a Girls’ Education Accelerator grant to maximize their GPE support.

Countries can refer to the system transformation grant guidelines in completing and submitting an application and budget template.

* System transformation grant guidelines * Quality standards for assessing system transformation and Multiplier grants * Annual progress report template: Project modality/ Sector pooled modality * Completion report template: Project modality/ Sector pooled modality Multiplier grants are available to countries that can mobilize investment in education from other partners, using a ratio of least $4 in new and additional external financing for every $1 from the GPE Multiplier (or a 1:1 ratio for the private sector and foundations).

The Debt2Ed feature within the Multiplier also offers the opportunity to transform sovereign borrowing into new investments in education, helping to unlock the Multiplier in the same way as cofinancing. A country first submits an expression of interest detailing the new and additional cofinancing from third parties, establishing the grant amount to be used in its Multiplier application.

Countries are expected to have completed or be close to finalizing their partnership compact at the time they apply. Countries can refer to the GPE Multiplier guidelines in completing and submitting the expression of interest and application.

## Girls’ Education Accelerator Some countries applying for a system transformation grant or GPE Multiplier – either singly or in combination – are also eligible for grants under the Girls’ Education Accelerator. This $250 million window ensures countries can maximize every opportunity to help all girls attend school for a full 12 years.

* Please select between the Multiplier or system transformation grant guidelines GPE can accelerate financing at times of crisis, such as disasters driven by natural hazards, armed conflict, forced displacement, and health emergencies, which threaten the education system.

Countries confronting a crisis can ask for advanced disbursement of up to 20% of a system transformation grant or Multiplier allocation (in countries only eligible for the Multiplier), or US$10 million (whichever is lowest of the three).

* Accelerated funding guidelines * Operational framework for effective support in fragile and conflict-affected contexts * Progress report template * Completion report template ## Advocacy and social accountability grants Through Education Out Loud, GPE supports civil society’s activities and influence in shaping education policy to better meet the needs of communities, especially of vulnerable and marginalized populations.

Implemented by Oxfam Denmark and financed by GPE, Education Out Loud is allocating up to US$133 million through three funding components. Grants are available for national and international civil society organizations and networks in eligible countries worldwide to support their advocacy and social accountability work between 2019 and 2027.

Learn more about Education Out Loud ## Knowledge and innovation (KIX) grants With a budget of US$164. 5 million, the Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) is the largest fund solely dedicated to meet global public good gaps in education. KIX activities cover six thematic areas: early childhood care and education, learning assessment systems, gender equality, strengthening data systems, equity and inclusion, and teaching and learning.

Knowledge and innovation grants. ## Grants under GPE 2020 funding model Some grant information and documents under the previous funding model are available for a limited period. ### Education sector program implementation grants * Variable part financing * Standardized progress reporting * Standardized completion reporting * Education data highlights * Education in the eye of the storm * Frequently asked questions * [](https://www.

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