Global Campaign for Education

The Global Campaign for Education brings together NGOs and teachers' unions in more than 120 countries to promote education as a basic right.

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The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) , founded in 1999, brings together major nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and teachers’ unions in more than 120 countries. GCE promotes access to education as a basic human right and mobilizes public pressure to create the political will for governments and other leaders in the international community to fulfill their promises to provide at least a free, public basic education for all children.

The U.S. Chapter of the Global Campaign for Education

In early 2003, a U.S. chapter of the Global Campaign for Education was formed to allow those in the United States to do their part in this global effort to ensure universal education to all children. The U.S. Chapter was founded by Gene Sperling, Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Council on Foreign Relations.

The U.S. Chapter of the Global Campaign for Education is a broad-based coalition of more than 30 non-governmental and religious organizations, teachers unions, foundations and child advocates to promote the cause of universal basic education in the world’s poorest nations.
The GCE serves as an umbrella group that works to:

• increase public awareness of the need for universal basic education
• help people in the United States identify steps they can take to realize the goal of universal basic education by 2015
• push for donor financing to adequately support basic education
• support the idea that the U.S. should take a leadership role in promoting universal basic education.

The GCE is also well-placed to raise the profile of other goals pertinent to universal education, such as pre-school education, prevention of abusive child labor, the inclusion of children with disabilities and special challenges, and efforts to close the digital divide.

Our Coalition Members:

• Academy for Educational Development
• Action Aid USA
• AFL-CIO
• American Federation of Teachers
• American Institutes for Research
• Americans for Informed Democracy
• Amnesty International
• Basic Education Coalition
• Bread for the World
• CARE
• Catholic Relief Services
• CEDPA
• Center for Universal Education - Council on Foreign Relations (Gene B. Sperling, U.S. GCE Founder and Chair)
• Centre for Development and Population Activities
• Christian Children’s Fund
• Concern Worldwide
• DATA
• Global Aids Alliance
• Global Kids
• iEARN (International Education and Resource Network)
• Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies
• International Center for Research on Women
• International Center on Child Labor and Education
• International Rescue Committee
• IREX
• Mercy Corps
• Mothers Acting Up
• National Education Association
• One World Youth Project
• PBS Wide Angle / Channel 13 New York
• Relief International
• RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund
• RTI International
• Room to Read
• Save the Children
• Scholastic
• School Girls Unite!
• Teach for America
• The ONE Campaign
• U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
• UN Global Teaching and Learning Project
• Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children
• Women’s Edge
• World Education
• World Learning
• World Vision
  

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