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Creating global public goods: Experiences from the Global and Regional Activities initiative of the Global Partnership for Education

Mon, March 9, 8:00 to 9:30am, Washington Hilton, Floor: Concourse Level, Lincoln East

Session Submission Type: Group Panel

Description of Session

Global Public Goods are those that are non-rivalrous (their consumption does not decrease the total amount available) and non-excludable (they can be broadly consumed). It has been argued that education is one such good as educated citizens contribute to a wealth of economic, social, and political outcomes that can be seen to have far-reaching benefits. Knowledge, evidence and capacity development regarding good practice in addressing the persistent challenges associated with the provision of quality basic education are another global public good when they can be used to inform policy, planning and practice across a variety of contexts.

The Global Partnership for Education launched the Global and Regional Activities (GRA) initiative in 2013 in order to support capacity development, knowledge sharing and knowledge mobilization at the global, regional and country-level. The GRA fosters innovation through the systematic provision of services and products that enlighten, engage, and energize partners to apply new knowledge and evidence-based good practices to resolve persistent education challenges. As such, the Global Partnership for Education is contributing to Global Public Goods services by ensuring that our partner developing countries have access to global knowledge at the same time as we are increasing their capacity to benefit from such knowledge.

The Global Partnership for Education identified three knowledge gaps where targeted research could produce a set of good practices and evidence that could be scaled-up or used to inform policy, planning and practice in education in diverse settings around the world. These knowledge gaps include the broad categories of learning outcomes, out-of-school children, and financing.

The proposed panel seeks to engage participants in a discussion of a variety of knowledge mobilization initiatives that can have far-reaching influence on the strengthening of education systems, notably in terms of results achievement and cost effectiveness. Each presentation will describe a collaborative initiative designed to build and share knowledge and increase capacity in both specific policy areas and in the use of tool for implementation. The education challenges addressed by this diverse set of panelists include issues of equity, accountability, learning, and financing of education.

The proposed panel will present four active initiatives of the Global and Regional Activities initiative, each presented by the lead agency implementing the grant. The discussion will be moderated by Dr Karen Mundy, Chief Technical Officer of the Global Partnership for Education (TBC) and will first present the main preliminary findings and lessons learned through these on-going projects ending in 2015 or 2016 and funded by the Global Partnership for Education. The panelists will focus on the contribution that this work makes to Global Public Goods; in particular, the role that such knowledge can play in overall system strengthening and addressing persistent challenges in education regarding access, equity and quality across a variety of contexts.

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