Global Partnership for Education have received $4billion in pledges to support Global Education

The 2021 Global Education Summit was co-hosted by the Prime minister of United Kingdom Boris Johnson and the President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya on July 28 and 29 in London and Online.

The Summit underlined education key role in accelerating the fight against poverty, prevent climate change and improve health outcomes, and highlighted the importance of putting education at the top of international agenda as the world seeks to respond to and recover from the impacts of COVID-19 pandermic. The Summit secured a record commitments of international, domestic, and private funding for education, providing a huge boost to children learning in the world's lowest income countries.

The theme for this year Summit was: Education's Reset: Learning from covid-19; Gender Equality in and through Education; The ripple effect: Education's impact on sustainability; and Financing for Impact: Volume, Equity and Efficiency..

The Summit brought together Heads of State and ministers from donor and partner countries, Leaders from businesses and private Foundations, representatives from international organisations, development banks Civil Society Organisations, Teachers organisations and youth leaders.

At the Summit, 23 donors announced a record of $4 billion in pledges to GPE's Fund. This put the GPE on the path to achieving its target of raising at least $5 billion over the next 5 years.

To date, 19 Heads of state have endorsed the Kenyatta Declaration, which call for countries to protect education budgets at pre-COVID-19 levels and also, where this has not been attained, increased DOMESTIC financing fod education towards the global benchmark of 20% of annual budgetary allocation.

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