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±«±··¡³§°ä°¿â€™s Global Education Coalition (GEC) was formed in March 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic caused school closures around the world and amplified existing education inequalities.

Bringing together partners from a range of sectors, the Coalition set out to mitigate these disruptions by mobilizing support around three central themes: Connectivity, gender and teachers. GEC has been coordinating local, national, regional, and global responses to ensure the continuity of learning.

Here is what you need you know.

The GEC is an open platform with agile coordination methods. ±«±··¡³§°ä°¿â€™s role is to broker and facilitate cooperation, build synergies, and help match country needs with the resources and services of Coalition Members. The GEC currently comprises of 208 partners, with 58 private sector members; 32 multilateral organizations; 78 non-governmental organizations and civil society actors; 33 networks and associations; 7 international media organizations. ().

Most GEC programmes engage two or more Members. The benefit of this model is the ability to scale up programmes that would not be possible with single-partner projects. By fostering dialogue and exchange among stakeholders and mobilizing and coordinating international solidarity, the Coalition facilitates the delivery of solutions that can actively change things at the national and local levels.

The GEC is a demand-driven network of engaged Members and key education stakeholders working to drive the transformation of education at all levels. The Coalition is active in 112 countries supporting its four large-scale ambitious missions related to skills, teachers, catch-up learning, and gender:

• The Global Skills Academy is scaling-up to support 3 million learners gain the skills needed for employability and resilience in a changing labour market by 2025, and 10 million by 2029.
• The Global Learning House is the central hub for lifelong learning resources and classes aiming to support 1 million learners with supplemental learning resources by 2025. 
• The Global Teacher Campus will help 1 million teachers gain digital skills and access professional development opportunities by 2025. 
• The Driving Gender-transformative Education Mission will support 5 million marginalized girls and young women in 20 countries with the highest gender disparities in education, through training and advocacy by 2025. 

Over the last three years, the Coalition has made significant strides in developing unique and effective partnerships that have made tangible impacts at all levels of the education ecosystem and across multiple regions, countries, and contexts. The Global Education Coalition has: 

• Helped over 615,000 youth develop employability skills. 
• Trained 654,796 teachers.
• Supported over 800,000 learners studying foundational subjects like science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. 
• Reached 1,880,552 of the most marginalized girls and women. 

The last 12 months have seen GEC Members offer unprecedented levels of support and commitment in the face of multiple unfolding and ongoing crises.

The GEC has proven its effectiveness at responding to crises beyond the pandemic and in doing so has gained valuable experience and developed stronger links between Coalition Members that can power the scaling of its ambitions. The Coalition now has an opportunity to support countries in their digital transformation programming.

In the past year, actions shifted from COVID-response to supporting the resilience of education systems in different crisis situations and advancing the transformation of education. At the Transforming Education Summit in September 2022, several Coalition partners came together to lay the foundations for the Digital Transformation Collaborative, a sub-group of the Coalition which will work directly with countries to co-create sustainable plans for digital transformation at scale.

In 2023 and beyond, as the Coalition moves from the pandemic response to the transformation agenda, this group will facilitate bold new, scalable, and sustainable partnerships. These collaborations aim to help realize the power of digital transformation, close educational divides, and support actions and investments for pilot projects to be brought to scale at a national level and in a sustainable way.

The GEC will continue to play an important role in supporting the global education agenda through its members working on the ground across all levels of education in countries and regions all around the world.

On 28 March 2023, the third anniversary of the creation of the Global Education Coalition (GEC), UNESCO is inviting all partners of the Coalition, as well as Member States, to the very first in-person annual member meeting at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

• Visit the Global Education Coalition’s webpage
• More about the annual member meeting
• Read the GEC’s progress