Global Partnership of Education board chair Julia Gillard, in an interview with Devex earlier this year, expressed that she was “very concerned about the declining donor support to education.”
She has reason to be. Education seems to be inching down the list of donors’ priorities, a new policy paper by UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report, which was released a week before the June 25-26 GPE replenishment pledging conference in Brussels, Belgium, confirmed.
The share of education in total aid fell from 10.2 percent in 2009 to 8.7 percent in 2012. While aid to education alone steadily rose from 2002 to 2010, it dropped 10 percent from 2010 to 2012.