Global Partnership for Education award ‘Education Out Loud’ grant to Street Child  — Street Child

Street Child is delighted to announce that it has selected for a grant from the Global Partnership for Education’s (GPE) advocacy and social accountability fund, Education Out Loud, to support transnational civil society alliances in carrying out innovative multi-country advocacy around education.

Street Child is one of four organisations to have been selected from more than a hundred applicants, alongside ActionAid International, Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage and Zimbabwe Network of Early Childhood Development who have been awarded a total of $US 4.1 million in grants to support advocacy work on education financing, girls’ education, learning assessments and early childhood development over the next three years.

Street Child’s ‘Education Out Loud’ project will work with 100 Civil Society Organisations and 75,000 citizens to put citizen-led assessments at the forefront of efforts to monitor state educational allocations and activities; and drive accountability for state delivery of quality, equitable education for the most marginalised communities across South Asia. We are delighted to implement this project with Pratham India, ASER Afghanistan, ASER Nepal, the Institute of Informatics and Development (IID) in Bangladesh and Ashoka in Myanmar.

Implemented by Oxfam IBIS, with a total allocation of US$55.5 million from GPE, Education Out Loud is the world’s largest fund dedicated to supporting civil society to be active and influential in shaping education policy to better meet the needs of communities, especially of vulnerable and marginalised populations. Under the call for transnational proposals, individual grants are provided to a diverse range of organisations to influence global and regional policy frameworks to better enable the realisation of the right to equitable and quality education.

Click here to read the Global Partnership for Education’s press release.