Press Conference by Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education & Ambassador for Global Health Financing for WHO on a new $1.5 billion investment to announce for education as part of the International Finance Facility for Education.

UN Special Envoy Gordon Brown announced a new $1.5 billion commitment to education and skills investments for the world’s children and youth most in need – the biggest one-off boost to education funding in decades, powered by the International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd).

Addressing journalists today (26 Sep) Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education said, “As many as 500 million of the world's already vulnerable children across 73 countries - and this is the largest group since 1945 - are today suffering the interruption of their education, trapped either in 56 conflicts worldwide or displaced by climate, droughts, firestorms, or floods. 260 million of them will never go to school any day in the foreseeable future.”

He continued, “I can today announce that a one and a half billion fund, the International Finance Facility for education, chaired by Sir Gillian Smith, and whose director, Karthik, is here with us this morning, is working with development banks, raising money from guarantees and grants from advanced countries and providing education with the view to giving millions new chances, starting with 20 eligible countries in Asia.”

He also called on “every country, including the Muslim majority countries of the world, to come together in demanding an end to this repression of girls across the whole of Afghanistan.”

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