Developing Countries: Education

(asked on 20th February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what (a) recent steps and (b) funding his Department has provided to ensure that children across the world have access to education.


Answered by
Andrew Mitchell Portrait
Andrew Mitchell
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
This question was answered on 27th February 2023

Ensuring 12 years of quality education for all children is an FCDO priority. We have made significant investments through global funds to achieve this, pledging £430 million to the Global Partnership for Education in 2021, as well as £80 million to Education Cannot Wait in February 2023 and £10 million for projects to support education in emergencies. Last year we launched the Commitment to Action on foundational learning to reduce learning poverty by 50 percent by 2030. We run bilateral education programmes in 19 countries and our Girls' Education Challenge programme has given 1.6 million marginalised girls access to quality education.

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