Investing in Education: Lessons from the Business Community
To help provide insights on the variety of ways businesses can support the implementation of the post-2015 development agenda, GBC-Education and the ...
Reports
Safe Schools Initiative: Protecting the Right to Learn in Pakistan
Over the past four decades, Pakistan has experienced more attacks on education than any country in the world. As the Pakistani government works to ens...
Ebola Emergency: Restoring Education, Creating Safe Schools and Preventing a Long-term Crisis
Education has been one of the first casualties of the Ebola outbreak. Nearly five million children were out of school due to Ebola-related school clos...
Toward a Global Education Platform: Potential Models for Harnessing Technology to Promote Education as a Global Public Good
The paper provides a discussion of five potential models for using technology to deliver education to the most marginalized. It also provides an overv...
Planning for Impact: Measuring Business Investments in Education
Working in collaboration with Coalition member PwC US and partner A World at School, this report was produced to help organizations begin to better...
The Smartest Investment: A Framework for Business Engagement in Education
Business benefits from high-quality education systems and has an interest to give all children, youth, and adults the opportunity to reach their poten...
Investment in Global Education: A Strategic Imperative for Business
The 21st century is marked by global inter-connections. People, capital, information, and goods all flow across borders at ever increasing rates. By 2...
Policy Briefs
Education Bonds memo
This discussion memo puts forward a case for establishing Education Bonds that can mobilize new financial resources to close the multi-billion dollar ...
Cooperating with Multilaterals for Global Education: Opportunities for the Business Community
This policy brief outlines four opportunities for business to support multilateral priorities in education. By working with multilateral organizations...
Business Investment in Early Childhood: Policies and Programs
Investing in early childhood development (ECD) makes good business sense. There are many simple ways for companies to do this through policy, practice...
Global Business Coalition for Education’s Commitment to Education In Emergencies: Progress Report
At the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016, the Global Business Coalition for Education (GBCEducation) committed to mobilize $100 million in financial a...
A Fund for Education in Emergencies: Business Weighs In
GBC-Education partnered with the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) Secretariat’s global consultation to poll the business c...
Digital Campaigning – A New Role for Business in Education
Technology is fast connecting the world. Capitalizing on this, digital campaigning has spurred great progress for several causes, mobilizing people gl...
Background Documents
Investing in Education in Emergencies Through Employee Engagement
May 2016During the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul,Turkey, GBC-Education convened business leaders, development agencies, UN leaders, and pri...
Opportunities for Public-Private Partnerships in Education: Bringing Together Business, Foundations & International Donors
Apr 2016Alongside the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings, GBC-Education gathered business leaders, development agencies, philanthropic leaders, and private founda...