Qatar’s leadership role in addressing out-of-school children crisis lauded

Doha, Qatar: A top official at Global Partnership for Education (GPE) has commended Qatar s efforts to significantly reduce the number of out of schoo...

Doha, Qatar: A top official at Global Partnership for Education (GPE) has commended Qatar’s efforts to significantly reduce the number of out-of-school children globally and its contribution towards innovative funding to support education.

In an interview with The Peninsula, the Chief Executive Officer of Global Partnership for Education, Laura Frigenti (pictured)  also highlighted Qatar’s growing leadership on global education efforts.

Over the past decade, GPE,  a multi-stakeholder partnership that aims to strengthen global education, has joined forced with Education Above All (EAA)  Foundation, a global development and education foundation,  to get over 2.7 million out-of-school children back to learning, including in Chad, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.

In 2022, building on a long tradition of generosity, the Qatar Fund for Development, through EAA Foundation, pledged $20m to GPE to help more out-of-school children return to the classroom.

“We began working with Qatar and the EAA Foundation in 2012. It’s been a long-standing relationship based on a shared vision, particularly on key issues such as the need to bring out-of-school children back into the education system. This reflects our mutual belief that the education system must be inclusive and bring everyone together,” she said.