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The Global Campaign for Education, U.S. Chapter (GCE-US) is a broad-based coalition of U.S. organizations including faith-based groups, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), teachers unions, foundations, and think tanks dedicated to ensuring access to quality basic education in developing nations.

GCE-US promotes access to education as a basic human right and mobilizes the public to create political will in the U.S. and internationally to improve education for the world’s poorest children.  As a coalition, we also work to promote the importance of pre-school education, prevent abusive child labor, increase adult literacy rates, and eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education.

Founded in 2003 by Gene Sperling, formerly the Director of the Center for Universal Education, GCE-US has grown into a thriving and diverse coalition with more than 30 member organizations working together to increase awareness of the need for Education for All and to secure U.S. leadership on a multilateral global education initiative.

Current Objectives of the U.S. Chapter of the Global Campaign for Education:

• Universal Education for All by 2015:  Agreed upon by over 180 countries in 2000, the Education for All (EFA) goals and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) both highlight the world’s desire for universal education for every boy and girl by 2015.
• U.S. Contributes its Fair Share of Resources to Education for All:  Based on annual cost estimates for achieving universal education of up to $16 billion, the United States is currently contributing less than one-third of its fair share.
  
• Creation of Global Fund for Education: The Education for All-Fast Track Initiative (FTI) has been important in a number of countries, but has been unable to mobilize adequate resources.  Achieving universal basic education will require evolving the best aspects of the FTI into an inclusive, country-driven, performance-based, and transparent Global Fund for Education that can transform the education landscape.
  
• Reforming U.S. Bilateral Education Funding:  The U.S. needs to reform its approach to bilateral assistance to better coordinate its assistance with national education strategies and to increase the amount of aid that reaches recipient countries, individual schools, and the children who need it most.

GCE-US is an independent secretariat of the Global Campaign for Education (GCE), based in Johannesburg, South Africa.  GCE was founded in 1999 and brings together major nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and teachers’ unions and other civil society groups in more than 100 countries.