Education Cannot Wait & Global Partnership for Education: Two complementary global funds responding to the global education crisis

This brief provides an overview of the Education Cannot Wait (ECW) and Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Complementarity Note jointly produced by the two global funds. The brief highlights how ECW and GPE collaborate in fragile and conflict-affected contexts to address the global education crisis. It emphasizes the escalating need for funding to support quality education for over 234 million crisis-affected children and adolescents and stresses how the two funds’ respective added values complement each other, helping to meet the full scope of needs.