Foreign Affairs committee  I think that where we are making investments in sexual and reproductive health is in the literacy of the girls themselves so that they can access information. We do have some investments that touch on the development of a curriculum in social skills and life skills areas, but I d

Foreign Affairs committee  I'd like to say a little bit about innovation, because in a way your question referred to innovation, as did the question about our work with the Gates foundation. As a partnership, this year we will be developing an innovation strategy, and one of the areas we are very intereste

Foreign Affairs committee  I think the focus on aid effectiveness makes the most sense if it's partnered with a focus on development effectiveness. Development effectiveness requires country ownership, but it also requires country responsiveness to clear metrics and outcomes. GPE introduced a results-base

Foreign Affairs committee  We support the civil society coalitions in 62 of our 65 developing country partners. These coalitions play a vital role in social accountability for results in the education sector. They engage in budget-tracking exercises to help lower corruption and fraud in the system. They pl

Foreign Affairs committee  We are measuring results for girls across our partnership. We help governments to invest in good data, good systems for monitoring data, and to ensure that they are tracking children both in school and out of school. So in our results framework, on an annual basis, we roll up the

Foreign Affairs committee  You're absolutely correct. We have great neurological research now that shows us that the hot area for brain development is in the first three years. I want to make a bit of a radical case to you about the importance of upper years of education for that early development. When

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Julia. Thank you to the chair and the committee. It's a real honour to be here today to speak with you about the Global Partnership for Education. Last year GPE launched its new strategic plan that will see our partnership through to 2020. This strategic plan, as you