Opinion: Mobilizing US funding for quality education must be a priorityAugust 16, 2024 | Opinion | Giulia McPherson Note: this opinion piece was first published on Devex on August 16th, 2024. August 16, 2024 It’s time for focused efforts to restore political will needed to tackle the global education crisis. Calls to prioritize access to education in some of the …
Announcement: Global Campaign for Education-US Appoints New Executive Director
Announcement: Global Campaign for Education-US Appoints New Executive DirectorAugust 9, 2024 | | Action Alert | GCE-US August 9, 2024 Washington, DC – The Global Campaign for Education-US (GCE-US), a broad-based coalition of over 80 members dedicated to ensuring universal quality education for all children, announced the appointment of Giulia McPherson as its next Executive Director, effective August 16, …
GCE-US 2024 AMP Global Scholars Seminar
GCE-US 2024 AMP Global Scholars SeminarJuly 24, 2024 | | Action Alert | Genevieve Manise & Natalie Snelson July 16, 2024 Washington, D.C. – This month, the Global Campaign for Education-US (GCE-US) team in Washington, D.C. had the pleasure of meeting with the AMP Global Scholars, a group of global students whose mission is to make the world a …
GCE-US Celebrates the Global Child Thrive Act
GCE-US Celebrates the Global Child Thrive ActJuly 23, 2024 | | Action Alert | Genevieve Manise & Natalie Snelson July 23, 2024 Washington, D.C. – The Global Child Thrive Act is a multisectoral, interagency bill enacted in 2021 which aims to integrate childhood development interventions into US foreign assistance programs. The launch event provided updates on strategy objectives and …
GCE-US Applauds the Release of Together for Girls’ New Strategy for 2024-2030
GCE-US Applauds the Release of Together for Girls’ New Strategy for 2024-2030July 17th, 2024 | | News | Genevieve ManiseJuly 1, 2024 Washington, D.C. – On June 26th, the Global Campaign for Education – U.S.’s partner, Together for Girls, released a strategy titled, “Together for Girls Strategy 2024-2030,” which aims to achieve “a world where every child and adolescent is …
Mainstreaming Disability-Inclusive Education: A Requirement, Not a Request
Mainstreaming Disability-Inclusive Education: A Requirement, Not a RequestOctober 19, 2022 | | Action Alert | Pierina Anton Lopez and Anny LinAt Light for the World South Sudan, 25-year-old Esther Piro, a South Sudanese disability rights activist, advocate, and trainer with a hearing impairment, serves as a Disability Inclusion Facilitator in her community. Through this role, Esther works to mainstream disability …
International Day of Education Event: Education in Emergencies – A Global Call for 222 Million Children
International Day of Education Event: Education in Emergencies – A Global Call for 222 Million ChildrenJanuary 17, 2023| | Action Alert | GCE-USEducation in Emergencies: A Global Call for 222 Million Children 24 January 2023 | 1pm – 3pm ET | Georgetown University >> Watch this inspirational event at: https://bit.ly/EiE-Event-Livestream >> Read the U.S. Government Case for Investment in Education Cannot …
FY25 Action Alert
Tell Congress: Invest in Global Education April 24, 2024 | Action Alert | The need for U.S. leadership in global education has never been greater. According to the World Bank, in 2023 over 70 percent of children in lower- and middle-income countries were not equipped with the skills needed to read and understand a basic text or demonstrate basic mathematical proficiency …
Transforming Commitments into Real Solutions for Disability-Inclusive Education
UN Transforming Education Summit (TES) Solutions Day Side Session: Transforming Commitments into Real Solutions for Disability-Inclusive EducationSeptember 17, 2022 | | Action Alert | GCE-US TES Solutions Day Side Session: Transforming Commitments into Real Solutions for Disability-Inclusive Education 17 September 2022 | 13:00 – 14:30 ET | UN Conference Room 7 >> Watch the session recording [2:53:00 – 4:27:00] We …
GCE-US hosts Global Action Week for Education 2022 April Coalition Meeting
GCE-US Hosts Global Action Week for Education 2022 April Coalition MeetingApril 27, 2022 | | Action Alert | Pierina Anton Lopez On April 26, 2022, the Global Campaign for Education-US hosted its April coalition meeting during the Global Action Week for Education. For a week every April, Global Campaign for Education chapters around the world, including GCE-US, mobilize around a …