October 2023
Our report, based on research across the U.S. and around the world, makes an urgent case: The business community needs to broaden its focus to the youngest children to help transform not only their education, but their health, employability, and all-around contribution to their communities and the wider world.
Reports and Research
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in our economy, and many are using their expertise as a force for good. Small businesses are making a big impact on education.
Reports and Research
Resilience: A New Youth Skill for the Fourth Industrial Revolution report highlights the need for young people to acquire the skills to cope with disruptions to be better prepared for the future of work.
Reports and Research
The scorecard shows that the most populous countries in South Asia are projected to improve the proportion of children completing secondary and attaining workforce skills.
Reports and Research
Strategy and Guides
This discussion memo puts forward a case for establishing Education Bonds that can mobilize new financial resources to close the multi-billion dollar SDG 4 funding gap. Education Bonds could engage actors ranging from multilateral development banks, governments, business, and civil society to increase investments in the future of children and youth throughout the world.
Strategy and Guides
GBC-Education has released a report which focuses specifically on business support for early childhood development (ECD) in Kenya. This builds on GBC-Education's business case for early childhood development, as described in the report "Opportunities for Impact" (2016). This guide outlines the early childhood investment case for the business community and provides concrete policies and guidelines that can allow companies to do more to effectively invest in the early years. (more…)
Strategy and Guides
GBC-Education has released a report which details why businesses should invest in early childhood development (ECD), a holistic approach encompassing child and maternal health, early learning, childcare, and nutrition throughout a period spanning from pregnancy to primary school — the most critical time period for a child’s physical, cognitive, linguistic, and socio-emotional development. This report also details opportunities for businesses to engage in ECD. (more…)
Strategy and Guides
GBC-Education released a working paper that highlights emerging thinking on the critical role that technology can play in enabling access to affordable, relevant, and quality education for Syrian youth displaced by conflict. The paper also details how technology can help youth overcome barriers to the development of relevant skills required by a 21st century workforce. (more…)
Reports and Research
GBC-Education's Global Education Platform released a report following the initiative’s pilot writing contest, #YourStoryIndia. Inside, the report outlines five potential next steps for the initiative in order to address the global skills crisis, emphasizing the role of technology in education in emergencies. The report will be submitted to the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity. (more…)
Strategy and Guides
Since Safe Schools Nigeria was originally published in the spring of 2014, more than $30 million has been mobilized to protect schools in Northeast Nigeria. To date, nearly 50,000 Nigerian children displaced from their homes by Boko Haram have benefited from student transfer programs, school reconstruction programs, or education strategies within IDP camps organized by the Safe Schools Initiative. (more…)
