Education for All – Fast Track Initiative (EFA-FTI)

The World Bank has been a leading partner in the EFA-FTI, a global compact that aims to help low-income countries make accelerated progress towards free and universal basic education. Through the EFA Fund, the global initiative supports countries to develop and implement education plans that are based on sound analysis. FTI funding supports collaborative efforts among donors, developing country partners, and civil society organizations to improve donor harmonization, knowledge sharing, and resource mobilization at both national and international levels. All low-income countries are eligible for technical and financial support from the FTI. The World Bank channels FTI funding to strategic partners in the effort to bring about systemic education reform, including those listed below.
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Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA)

Originally named Donors to African Education, ADEA was established in 1988 with technical and financial support from the World Bank. As a leading member of the ADEA Steering Committee, the World Bank remains a key strategic partner in facilitating education policy dialogue between Ministers of Education and donor agencies. Among other initiatives, the World Bank’s analytical and financial support extends to the preparation of ADEA’s triennales, its partnership with the African Union for implementation of the Second Decade of Education for Africa, and the Forum for African Women Educationalists.
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Pole de Dakar

Since the 1990s, the World Bank’s collaboration with Pole de Dakar has produced education Country Status Reports (CSRs), which combine intensive data gathering with statistical capacity-building for national teams. The technical teams from the World Bank and Pole de Dakar work closely with the client to ensure transfer of knowledge and skills. CSRs have served as the basis for developing a country’s education sector plan, which in turn are used to mobilize funds from multilateral and bilateral donor agencies. Funding for Pole de Dakar also supports a mixed modality training program on education system management.
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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

The partnership with UIS provides critical follow-up to the analyses conducted for Country Status Reports. UIS aims to maintain and reinforce national analytical capacities while promoting the continued production and use of education finance indicators, particularly in the monitoring of sector-wide plans. National education finance indicators are also fed into international databases to allow Ministries of Education, donors, civil society organizations and others to benchmark and monitor sector-wide plans and progress towards education-related goals.
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International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)

The World Bank has channeled support to the IIEP for the provision of training on educational planning and management, with a particular focus on understanding the impact of decentralization on service delivery. IIEP also facilitates access to education policy documents and sector plans for enhanced knowledge sharing.
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University of Johannesburg

In 2010, the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) launched a three-year collaboration through financing channeled through the World Bank, with the aim of enhancing the leadership and management capacity of educational leaders to improve learning outcomes. HGSE brings to the partnership significant expertise in change management, leading teams and educational systems through reform, and building strong institutions. The goal of the partnership is to dramatically increase the capacity of South African school leaders to improve student achievement and opportunity.
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Global Universities Leadership Forum (GULF)

GULF was established in 2006 under the World Economic Forum and comprises a community of leading university presidents whose objectives are to develop a global community of university leaders; to foster collaborations among top universities in areas of significance for global policy; and to shape the agenda of the World Economic Forum. The GULF community now includes 25 heads of premier universities from 9 different countries and three continents (Asia, Europe and North America. The Bank in collaboration with Open Educational Resources in Africa (OER Africa) organized a consultative meeting between GULF and African Universities in Johannesburg in 2010 to agree on a common program of action. There are on-going collaborative activities between universities in the two groups. A follow-up meeting to share experience from these partnerships is being organized by OER Africa and is scheduled for May 2011. More…

Global Initiative on Quality Assurance (in higher education) (GIQAC)

This is a collaborative initiative between the World Bank and UNESCO to support capacity building in higher education quality assurance in all regions in the Bank, including Africa. Within Sub-Saharan Africa, the Africa Quality Assurance Network (AfriQAN) is the primary counterpart with its secretariat collocated with the Association of African Universities (AAU). Through this partnership, training has been provided to national quality assurance agencies, institutions and sub-regional teams working on quality assurance. The World Bank chairs the GIQAC board and provides funding through the Development Grant Facility (DGF) on an annual basis.
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