9 December 2025, 12:30-15:00 GMT – Leveraging Evidence in Education Financing
10 December 2025, 12:30-15:00 GMT – Turning Evidence into Action: Tools for Scaling & Financial Decision-Making
Languages: English, with simultaneous interpretation in French and Spanish
The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) are pleased to invite you to the 6th Annual Global Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (GPE KIX) Symposium online.
Drawing on GPE KIX’s commitment and IDRC’s scaling science to mobilising knowledge for action, the symposium will highlight practical tools, financing strategies, and policy decisions that have enabled the sustainable scaling of impactful, locally-rooted innovations, especially in low-income and fragile settings.
Why attend?
In 2025, the global education sector is confronting an increasingly urgent financing crisis: low- and lower-middle-income countries face a staggering US$97 billion gap in education funding, threatening progress toward SDG 4.
Now more than ever, evidence-informed and strategic investment is critical — not just for sustaining education systems, but for scaling the innovations that work.
This year’s symposium will dig into how policymakers, researchers and development partners are leveraging rigorous evidence and creative financing mechanisms to scale transformative education solutions — especially in fragile and resource-constrained settings. Together, we will spotlight practical tools, real-world strategies, and policy decisions that are making a scalable, sustainable impact.