About CoA

CoA is the largest global fund solely dedicated to transforming education in lower-income countries, and a unique, multi-stakeholder partnership. We work to deliver quality education so that every girl and boy can have hope, opportunity and agency.

For two decades, CoA has been delivering funds and supporting solutions to build strong and resilient education systems in countries characterized by extreme poverty or conflict so that more children, especially girls, get the education they need to thrive and contribute to building a more prosperous and sustainable world.

CoA brings together all partners invested in education --lower-income countries, donors, international organizations, civil society, including youth and teacher organizations, the private sector and private foundations-- to transform education systems focusing particularly on the places and people with the greatest needs.

Our unique model has helped partner countries make significant progress in improving access, learning and equity, and achieve better outcomes for hundreds of millions of boys and girls.

What we do

Our vision

A quality education for every child

Our mission

To mobilize partnerships and investments that transform education systems in lower-income countries, leaving no one behind

 

Our goal

To accelerate access, learning outcomes and gender equality through equitable, inclusive and resilient education systems fit for the 21st century

Transforming education is about creating impact at scale so that every child receives a quality education. CoA helps governments make systemic changes and align resources and funding to deliver education for the most marginalized children, raise learning levels, withstand shocks and adapt to new challenges.

CoA convenes partners around policy dialogue to determine how to best support each country collectively, based on agreed national priorities. It facilitates participation and accountability from all education stakeholders.

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Partners

The CoA partnership

CoA brings together all partners invested in education --lower-income countries, donors, international organizations, civil society, including youth and teacher organizations, the private sector and private foundations-- to transform education systems focusing particularly on the places and people with the greatest needs.

Our strategy

CoA 2025 is the partnership’s strategic plan for 2021 to 2025. The strategy provides a platform to bring together CoA’s unique assets and ways of working in support of ambitious education transformation in the most vulnerable countries.

CoA 2025 is aligned and directly addresses SDG 4. Over the 2021-2025 period, CoA will accelerate children’s access to education while improving learning and catalyzing greater equity and gender equality.

CoA will pursue its vision, mission and goal through 3 country-level objectives:

  • Strengthen gender-responsive planning and policy development for system-wide impact
  • Mobilize coordinated action and financing to enable transformative change
  • Strengthen capacity, adapt and learn to implement and drive results at scale.

These objectives are supported by an enabling, global objective: to mobilize global and national partners and resources for sustainable results.

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