September 2025
Katie Booth from the global software company talks about the benefits of working with us on new projects that combine our experience in both the global and local education and youth skills sectors.
By Justin van Fleet, CEO of the Global Business Coalition for Education
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…)
Strategy and Guides
Released on the International Day of the Girl Child, ‘The Journey of a Girl’ shows how businesses must invest at every stage of a girl’s education journey to overcome the many barriers that keep her from reaching her full potential. This working paper, commissioned by GBC-Education, surveyed 32 companies investing in girls’ education, and found that while there is a strong focus on empowering girls in the secondary years, less than 10% of corporate education budgets are directed to pre-primary education. (more…)
Strategy and Guides
In partnership with UNICEF and A World at School, the new Strong Schools and Communities Initiative will explore opportunities for school communities, national authorities, and the private sector to strengthen programs that protect learning environments and promote an open dialogue among communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. This report documents the plight of school children in the region, home to the highest rate of armed violence in the world, and identifies how the initiative will inform policies and programs that the government can utilize to create safe schools. (more…)
Strategy and Guides
In collaboration with the Global Business Coalition for Education, A World at School, and Theirworld, education experts unveiled a sweeping plan to get more than one million Syrian refugee children into school in Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon. To read the individual reports:
Strategy and Guides
To help provide insights on the variety of ways businesses can support the implementation of the post-2015 development agenda, GBC-Education and the UN Global Compact developed this publication featuring a diverse set of responsible investments in education by six GBC-Education member companies and a new framework that combines and builds upon two guidance documents. It also shares lessons that can inspire other businesses to support the education targets for the next 15 years. (more…)
