New York, 26 September 2024, UN Special Envoy for Global Education – Gordon Brown announces the new $1.5 billion investment for education as part of the International Finance Facility for Education, the biggest one-off boost to education funding in decades. It is a commitment to education and skills investments for the world’s children and youth most in need.
The International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd) is chaired by Sir Gillian Smith, and whose director, Karthik, is working with development banks, raising money from guarantees and grants from advanced countries. The allocated fund to provide education with the view to giving millions new chances, starting with 20 eligible countries in Asia.
It is a fact that today is the largest vulnerable group with children are the most impacted since 1945, suffering the interruption of their education, trapped either in 56 conflicts worldwide or displaced by climate, droughts, firestorms, or floods. 260 millions of them will never go to school any day in the foreseeable future.
At this occasion Mr. Brown also calls on every country, including the Muslim majority countries of the world, to come together in demanding to end the repression of girls across the whole of Afghanistan.
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