50 low-income and 15 donor countries are meeting in Dakar, West Africa today to pledge financial commitments to fund primary and lower-secondary education for over 870 million children who live in low and low-middle income countries.
The meeting follows Human Rights Watch released data saying world-wide, 264 million children are going without primary and secondary education, with 80 percent of these children living in the 65 countries meeting today.
The Global Partnership for Education aims to be on track to allocate$2 billion US dollars per year from 2020.