GPE has launched an ambitious financing campaign to raise at least US $5 billion over 5 years to change children's lives through education. These funds will help transform education systems in up to 90 countries and territories, which are home to more than 1 billion children and more than 80% of the world's out-of-school children. An equally important campaign goal is to ensure that domestic education expenditure is protected.

Investing in education – especially for girls - is the most effective way to drive progress on gender equality, which has been severely set back by COVID-19.