This report sets out how the crisis in education funding continues to rob children and their communities of opportunity, the important role that the GPE has and can continue to play in supporting access to and improvements in education and calls on donors, developing countries and the private sector to pledge at the 2014 GPE replenishment event their support for wider efforts to increase education funding and opportunity.

The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) is a civil society movement that aims to end exclusion in education. Education is a basic human right, and our mission is to make sure that governments act now to deliver the right of everyone to a free, quality, public education.